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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 56. Temptation and Ignorance
Temptation
Sad poison did I take, though it looked sweet,
a serpent’s rod the eye and heart beguiled;
and fool enough was I to heed the cheat
for when I bit the apple, oh, it smiled.
Its evil on my soul and body worked
dispersing through each organ, bone and limb,
so absence of its flavor ever irked,
yet no amount would fill me to the brim.
And though its rancid taste appalls the tongue,
no toxic pleasure soothing to my soul,
yet in my banishment a kind man sprung
to offer kindest words to make me whole.
If ever I return to Eden’s grace,
my friend across the miles will I embrace.
Ignorance
Long, long ago when ignorance I knew,
and fiction flowed unfiltered into fact,
constructed worlds and fairytales then grew
conforming to the ways one ought to act,
compatible with laws passed who knows when
which nurtured deep in simple, pliant brains
obedience to the point of loud amen
to one idea of ever after’s strains.
Too early was I born the truth to hear,
a story which reality reflects,
yet ever will the mind hold brothers dear
who showed me how to love in all respects.
Though much too old to build my world once more
yet maybe present life we could explore.
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