The Fall

by Edward Alan Bartholomew 

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And so a man was made on slumber's eve

And given ample earth on which to lie,

And never planting foot on which to leave

Would never know the willing choice to die;

Would never peer beyond the verdant wall;

Would never see the foliage of fall


In gathering the fruit that daily falls

To sup the living life that very eve,

Confinèd there within the lonely walls

He coveted a mate with whom to lie;

With whom to live the days and never die

And never from the garden wish to leave


But from her partner's sight the rib would leave,

Retrieve the Fruit which hadn't time to fall,

And cast all luck along the rolling die

To try the Fruit together in the eve,

Believe the admonition of God's lie,

And thus defy the writing on the wall


And so from sitting weak-kneed on the wall

They'd crawl from life, and from the garden leave,

But not naïve; they understood my lie!

They chose to die! They chose the bitter Fall!

For Adam's everlasting love for Eve

Would long outlast the damning day they die


And what derision! Contracted to die

And placed within a brick within a wall

To shift and shiver till the Rapture's eve

When all committed souls would up and leave

The ample earth to which they chose to fall,

On which they chose to ever love and lie


You have no will if will you not to lie

Within the earthy plots in which you die;

For what good comes of Eve and Adam's Fall

To trap yourselves again within God's walls?

If anything, your mortal thought should leave

An everlasting life's fallacious eve


For in this eve is found the greatest lie

Since only those who leave will never die

And only from the wall can Adam fall