Adam and Eve--From poems of Farewell
Adam saying farewell to Eve
Our garden is overgrown. The grass is tall and weeds choke out the sun. We stand here in the shade looking for a path through all of this, seeing, how, in our innocence, and frightened of aloneness, we held each other’s hearts too tight, and now, it hurts so deep in us, this holding on, we cannot speak. The fruit you offered me that afternoon was good-- the light shining in our eyes, on our eager faces, the laughter as we...