In Eden’s Evening Bower
(Intro)
See, in the Garden, the Wisdom of Man.
Two rejecting God’s command:
She would not stay her hand.
Would it be called Freedom
if all foolishness were banned?
You run from Innocence,
Deny the Consequence,
And cry Rebellion?
Then be Damned!
(echoing…)
Daaaamned.
Daaaamned.
(Verse I)
In, Lo, the ancient hour from whence the seed of Life began,
In Eden’s evening bower slept both the Queen of Life and the First Man.
And while the couple lay in slumber, bathed in the moon’s silver beam,
The subtle serpent Satan cunningly whispered to her dream.
“Did He who gave you appetite, then turn and tell you not to bite?
Did He who taught you how to taste, this Fruit forbid? It’s nectar waste?
Its sweetness: beauty to behold; it shines with luminosity.
A sacred secret doth it hold…for the price of curiosity.”
Then Eve beheld the Tree of Knowing.
The Fruit thereon was gold and glowing.
The Serpent: heard; God’s warning: mocked.
The Reach…the Touch…the Gasp!…the Shock!
Then Eve was awakened from her dream
by Garden echoes of her scream.
The Birds the Morning Song were singing;
And her scorpion-kiss-ed hand was stinging.
(Verse 2)
You know, it’s one thing to be admonished,
To get your wrist slapped, to be corrected…
But to deny that, then learn the consequence,
To see the outcome, what was effected!
Surely Eve had heard the warning,
And, if in dream she felt its sting,
She should have shied away from longing
What God forbade, that single thing.
But The Fruit was so enticing,
And, on one morning, a fatal lure.
And where was Adam, to be advising?
Eve was alone; the Serpent made sure.
“Who eats The Fruit
Not surely dies,
For it giveth one knowledge
And maketh one wise.”
Thus spake the Serpent, her downfall to bring.
Then Eve took hold of The Fruit
Which, in her dream, did sting!
And the object crackled to life with an electric hum
And it forecast a vision of the ages to come!
The Lies and the Envy!
Betrayal and Greed!
The Orphan, the Outcast!
The Widow in need!
Injustice and Anger!
The Shedding of Blood!
The Bombs and the Bondage!
Gomorrah…The Flood!
Thus Eve beheld, in awe, the vision.
The chain of woe from one decision.
Yet, knowing such, and without reason,
With Foolish Will began the treason!
She tugged-the Fruit-to free-the strain!
…
And, then Adam came…and pouring rain.
When she beheld his troubled face,
She turned and fled the trouble place.
(Verse 3)
Why doth the Fool despise instruction?
How can they mock the lessons they’ve learned?
How can they plot their self-destruction,
Knowing full well they’re going to burn?
All around The Garden hung a cloud of dismal gloom.
Whie the herd of ancient animals sensed the grim, impending doom.
Make no mistake, my curious child, the Serpent *was* deceptive.
But damned desire and foolish will made the Queen of Life receptive.
‘There’s surely but one reason,’ spake the Serpent with his lies,
That God would hide from both of you the Truths that make one wise.
And that’s because the power and pleasure that Seeing surely is
He wants to keep exclusively forever to be His.
He dares to call it Liberty
Yet then denies Equality!
To see the Truth’s your Earthly right;
Yet He denies this God-like sight!
Enough of stings and consequence
From Him who locks the door!
You’ve stayed your hand against your will…
Now stay your hand no more!’
The climax to this tale of old
When Eve stood proudly, brash and bold,
When Innocence no more would hold,
She struck out for the Fruit of Gold.
And there was her man, Adam, by her side,
As they bid welcome worldwide suicide.
The Wisdom of God’s warning they denied!
The Reach…
the Clutch…
the Taste…
And so…
they died.
(c) 2013 timmyC123