On Eve Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Robert Nye)

God did Adam and Eve betroth,
but after that original disobedience of both in the garden
where Lucifer enticed them with a lie into sin
imperfect the world did become,
life for all mortal men afterwards did harden
and a struggle for survival did begin
while sin made this earth very gruesome.

That original Eve, mother of all, along with father Adam,
brought sin and along with it all bad things like despair
but angels with flaming swords guarded that tree of life
and that madam certainly was beautiful past fair and sharp and wise.

Tell the omnipotent Lord God that you do not need to be pardoned,
call Eve Eurynome if you do want to, even call her true,
He perished and do live, did not leave Adam and Eve abandoned
but she is not to be found in this time and age anywhere,
death she did not yet survive
from the tree of life she did not become immortal,
is not godly or still alive
like all human beings she was mortal,
the moon she is not and neither in the upper air a place she has got,
do follow the moon if you must but it's only a piece of rock and dust.

[Reference: "Eurynome" by Robert Nye.

© Gert Strydom