10/00-5/03
The sinuous silky greenery;
Great grains, places, tastes,
Stretching in naked nature,
Bound to the most radiant pole of the spectrum
The extreme of resplendence afforded by earth.
Eden held Adam, akin to the skinshine,
For Adam was potent with right,
And Eve's splendor came to dim the whitest,
For Eve caused by brighteness
And naive perfection
The world to seem night.
Replete paradise engorged a young Eve;
Lust requires lack
And perfection is its obliterate.
So Lust appeared in a void,
Fruit of a lesser apparition -
Woman kenw no beauty
When all was beautiful.
And so the fruit was dark so dazzling
In its stark contrast to herself.
Biting, Eve grew wise and longing,
Craving running unclothed among wilderness
And Adam, and purity's glass love
Only named when she missed it.
And even as she craved, she loathed:
A paradox that dimmed the luminosity
Of innocent pleasure and guiltless joy.
Now light was the apex on a diminishing spectrum,
The tiny and untouchable extremity.
Eve consumed knowledge like a fool
And through it learned shame and loathing -
Laced them with her love until they were inextricably bound.
Such was craving that it took its installation
For Eve to comprehend
That there was no taking it back.
I don't remember Eden,
But I remember Eve,
A sheltered, secure girl cowering behind bliss
And an aching one longing for it;
Troubled and coveting across the spectrum of love
With open eyes.
