Genesis revisited through poetic eyes

Religion, and its scripture is often the source of heated debates and violent conflicts.  But this does not need to be the case.  We should search for the similarities within that allow us to identify with one another. All religions and creation myths share important themes and symbolism, a testament to the fact that humans are their creators...using stories to explain their lives, and the hereafter.  No matter what your beliefs, scriptures of all faiths have beautiful messages of within, if you take the time to study them.  

In the following poem, I revisited the Christian creation story of Adam and Eve, envisioning what it would have been like for those two beings to experience the first human physical connection.  Yet, it is not simply about Genesis.  I was inspired to write this poem after reading Zami by Audre Lorde.  The book is about one woman's self discovery, and her life's experiences as a young gay woman.  One passage in that book was very moving; it described her first love, and spoke to that base desire we all have for love, in all its forms.  So, I decided to write this poem, about the most intimate of human interaction, that first contact between two souls.


Remembering Eden


Forbidden longing,
powerfully fragrant
and unknown,
envelopes them--
the soul yearning to be 
complete.


Delicious energy 
serpentines
through their beings,
becomes earthly...
dissolves
into honey
milk, and seed--
the paradise of unity.


Lunar waves
nourish this
tender dance
bearing blessed
sweetness.


Bodies dissolve
transcending 
their separateness--
remembering 
the eve
they were 
born
one.





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