THE FALL OF MAN PART II
ADAM'S ACCOUNT
She came towards me, carrying the fruit,
sparkling, euphoric, high on enterprise,
rebellion sat dazzling in her eyes,
enchantress, temptress, mistress absolute.
Of course I are; I devoured her as well:
such carnal knowledge took us both by storm;
we'd shunned all sin, but when it took this form,
together locked, all wittingly, we fell.
I'd like to take a vote in self-defence,
a referendum of all future men,
and ask them, if i had that chance again
should I have kept us all in innocence?
Think what that means, you heterosexual chaps.
Full frontal nudity! But all the time?
Not spiced by fig leaves, stocking seams, hemline
revealing more forbidden fruit perhaps.
I find her now entirely to my fancy,
my helpmeet then but now my concubine,
and faithful too, my Eve, forever mine -
not so! Till Death - but that adds piquancy.
I like the paradox, the contradiction:
she plays at purity, she leads me on,
her blushes are ambiguous: shame? or none?
there's paradise in her. She's my addiction.
