Garden of Eden (72 of 365)

Day 72 of the 365 day poem challenge.

Word of the day celerity meaning "swiftness of movement."

Garden of Eden

Please yourself she said

Though I knew she did not mean it

She did not mean to give me freedom

She did not mean 

She did not

She

I shall please myself he said

And so she bit the apple

And the snake bit her back

 and everyone knows the joke

And that metaphor

He never intended to do wrong

He never intended

He

So temptation called

In paradise this was difficult 

Nevertheless it moved with serpentine celerity 

Everyone knows the story 

No gratitude

The father punishes those who have no appreciation

The father punishes 

The father

There were two males and an apparition 

That walk all together 

I wonder from whose womb all these bearded fellows sprang

On so many stain glassed windows

And how long it took them to cover their shame 

And How many juicy apples were consumed 

Juicy apples

Consumed 

The gates are sealed 

The vulva is closed 

All is descended from one

None are virgins yet all must be

Original sin is scary for children

Scary stories for children

Scary stories 

Scared.