Pride

“Genesis 1-27 – So God created mankind in his own image,

                             in the image of God, he created them;

                             male and female he created them”

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 cherubim 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.

Also, may You believe,

having forgotten your primeval purpose,

boldly, unconsciously, perhaps,    

so we should prefer to continue living.

(Written July 15, 2017)