“So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them” – Genesis 1-27.
This is how our history has been told in your book,
in the words of your saints and prophets,
a matter we must never doubt of.
Forgive us for questioning, but where
the power and mastery we should display,
which we have been looking for so long?
Where the wisdom and clearness,
where an eternal life or, at least, someone like
that of Methuselah, who lived for nine hundred
and sixty-nine years?
We lived by your side so little, and quickly
you banished us, locking the Paradise Gate,
there placing those cherubims brandishing
their deathly flaming swords.
Perhaps, in lieu of immortality, we developed
greatest and warmest a love, for and from
each one of us, what you could ever dream of.
Perhaps, may you believe,
having forgotten your primeval purpose,
boldly, unconsciously,
so we should prefer continue living.
Published in Culture Cult Magazine, issue 13 – Monsoon 2019.
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