Tempted By Eve

Tempted By Eve
© Surazeus
2023 10 04

While I love to dance in the twilight zone 
with the horse and the wolf of my wood clan, 
I will return home as the rolling stone 
to find star-eyed lake where my soul began 
to bloom from sorrow of the pungent Earth 
in apples that nurture my soul rebirth. 

Always I am exiled from paradise, 
Adam ever seeking garden of fruit 
where I can give and take without the price 
we pay for stealing well-made crafts as loot, 
tempted by Eve, daughter of Proserpine, 
who rules cave of the sword-forging machine. 

Flames of forges burning in cave of power 
glint in diamonds on the brass crown she wears 
when I bring basket with the magic flower 
she brews in wine that transforms us to bears 
so we dance howling on the star lake shore 
till divine energy flows through our core. 

While Eve stands tall and still on ziggurat, 
paved with skulls of dragons and haughty kings, 
we dance around our goddess like the bat 
that flutters in vast clouds on vampire wings, 
and from cave of illusions shrieking swarm 
walls of paradise shattered by our storm. 

While angels and devils with ringing swords 
battle to control huge garden of fruit, 
Lucifer with diamond scepter cheers hordes 
of exiled gardeners to fight the brute 
who cast Eve from paradise with a sneer, 
now helplessly howling with broken spear. 

High leaping stairway to Heaven-vast hall, 
I charge in Olympus with quick attack 
to battle God in lightning-nimble brawl, 
urged forth with passion for justice to whack 
head of arrogant tyrant with sharp blow 
that terminates his world-oppressing show. 

Triumphant in Heaven from war for truth, 
I welcome Eve to sit on throne of power, 
then place gold ruby-bright crown of world faith 
on her humble head as she holds the flower 
called lily of the valley that proclaims 
her well-earned right to assign people names. 

Beside world empress, who rules as Ishtar, 
I wield honed sword of justice to enforce 
laws she decrees based on light of the star 
which calculates the ever-changing course 
of human history that becomes our fate 
in rise and fall of empires newly late.