If I Had Lived Before Man Poem by Ernest Hazvi Maengamhuru

If I had lived before man
And purest of heart shown,
before sin’s suckling was sown
professing infinite love and true love shown.

If I had lived before man
Watching every rising and setting sun
the gold of its rays sustaining me with life,
Life…, will death befall me when the rich judgment is done? .

If I had lived before man
From woman’s succulent breast breath drew not I,
My world, my universe- not found in the seams of her arms
Yet still I did, and fell. Cursed be I if to motherhood I cry.

If I had lived before man
And held my breath up the thorny rise,
Yet my lot is that of man, and
I will succumb to the heeding knell.