A son and a man,
In ash covered land
The man not a fool,
And yet;
Did not that third,
It's absence,
Bring grief, concern?
One pictures the void
One shudders-
But is it perhaps better?
For my world,
Teaming with the many,
The other,
Seems but hollow illusion
And the false hope
Brings my soul friction
For those faces-
Though they may conceal
Love, thought,
A blue jay on a wintered peak-
So often conceal naught but snow,
and an endless veil
Adam was found lonely and
God allowed that exchange
Of rib, for his Eve
Oh how I would gladly give
My rib for my Death!
If it meant my Eve,
and was the only means
For this fruitless search by day
That has yielded only serpents
May yet kill me, anyway
2 comments:
why did God put such a craving in our hearts for love (between a man and a woman) when He knew that we could live without it? ...that what we really must learn is that only His love will truly satisfy?
However...isn't it true that His love can be manifested to us through another?
(p.s. if i'm totally reading into this poem too much, forgive me.)
I don't think his love could ever truly satisfy. Not me. I don't think that's ubiblical either.It reassures me, the knowledge makes me feel a little better, but I still feel hollow in this life.
No forgiveness needed Sara, but the poem was never originally intended to be strictly about relationships- when I thought of the Genesis story, here is what I remembered particularly.
-Adam names all the animals, has the world to himself.
-Adam is lonely. (Adam, having the closest relationship to God any human could ever have)
-God creates Eve.
As if Eve is the answer to loneliness, and is nevertheless the cause of death.
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