To The Play Adam And Eve And The Marriage God Poem by Simpa Omoluabi

That Adam refused to slay Eve
That Prometheus failed to snuff the life of Pandora
That Prometheus or Adam absconded with Yemoja
That Adam did not destroy Eve
The gods sought revenge without repentance.

And Adam gave the gods a wound for a heart
For they were heartless, they were the lord, the slavemasters.

The gods menstruated without cease
And the ultimate crime was that Adam refused to kill Yemoja,
Adam refused to kill Eve.
Adam is Prometheus caught in the put out paradox.
And Adam gave the gods a wound for a heart
A wound that bled like a woman with an issue healed by Christ.

The gods on flashback told themselves a fancy,
A fancy of Perseus beheading Medusa,
Wishing they could reverse the irrevocable
Wishing they could revoke the irrevertible
Wishing Adam had destroyed Eve, instead Olokun Adam slew.

Adam rode into Babel with Eve
Adam drove into the towers with Yemoja
Adam or Prometheus drove in with the source of light
And by an indescribable beauty, a mornster, an enslaved nation
Were electrified, lightened up and enlivened
They ran amok in ecstasy into a freedom of expression
In a freedom of speech, and the towers
Like breasts peaked and arranged against the sky
Was brought to collapse for Babel tower was the tower of imperialism
The story of the tower of Babel is the story of primal slavery
Into which Adam rode in with the beast, for Eve was the beast.

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