We all have hearts of gold

Eve reflects

I thought it was the fruit on the tree
whispering all about knowledge
that my spirit could soar
on love’s wings

How the serpent seduced
slithering
scales sparkling in the sunlight
dancing a tango of you can have it all

I had waited so long
knowing nothing but my place
made from a rib
so they told me

One bite
I was awash with passion’s juice
flowing within and without
wild and burning

The man saw me
wanted to taste all the juices
so I gave it all to him
along with what was left of my soul

I don’t know when the voice came
or when I noticed the serpent’s absence
again
our heads hurt and we saw our own mess

The light had changed then
colder and so stark
our hair and bodies sticky
with drying fluids

We ran to bathe
to cover up our ugliness
bore children as instructed
I shamed my daughters clean

Night after night I confessed
how I was a serpent’s tool
utter fool
they would bow their heads in sorrow

Still on certain warm days
when the sun kisses the earth
and its ever innocent green life
I remember purple scales shimmering

And though I cover up my lust
hide my heart under a blanket of devotion
still a smile comes to my heart
for that brief taste of more

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All that glitters isn’t gold

One of them stuttered out a longer word
not using the blunter shorter one used
before
but I know just what it was she meant to say

Maybe they’re right
sometimes I hate this lateness
hate the lessons needed
when I should have known better long ago

Have I clung so tight
I cut off circulation
caused another form of suffocation
through my lonely hearts club needs

Just now I open up my hand
seeing just how much a fool I’ve been
in my dreaming like a child
still trembling on my feet

Apologies to the ladies
for the depth of my hunger
clumsy always and one look in the glass
tells me more truth than I can bear

Tomorrow some dawn will break
I pray the Lord my soul to take
and hold against those memories
that serve to keep me small and broken

Change of life
change of heart
what I was once
what I am now

Another slap in the face
wake up call
in the beginning evolution
spells love in reverse