When Adam and Eve Reminisce

When Adam and Eve reminisce

about bliss –

about when they knew grace –

and the place

they’d been told

they’d defaced it with sin --

they take off their clothes again,

attempting to recollect when

arrant nakedness

was all they wore –

not the bore

it had cooled to since then.

Though sometimes they’re not

quite as numb

as they’d been

since the fall: a flicker

enthralls -- comes to stir,

as it were,

the cold bowl of the soul

and the flesh.

But nothing feels fresh.

What had they done to beget

this? Reminisce about bliss

in the nude though they may,

it doesn’t help tell them

what God meant to say.

Now all He seems

is rude.

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