Everything Were Symbols Poem by RIC BASTASA

in the garden of Eden
the apple, the snake,
Adam and Eve
and God

and why do we ask
if the apple was actually
an apricot, or that the snake
was not a cobra but a boa,
or that
Adam and Eve were actually
humans

or that God exists
or that indeed there was
really this garden of Eden?

they are all symbols
all figuratively speaking
metaphors of this
divinity and mortality
entwined

they are matters of
the heart
and why not let them
just be as they are

in our hearts, in our hearts
alone