Too Long Out of Eden
Increasingly, when I come to joy,
my heart breaks,
aching for those
who’ve gone ahead too soon.
I’ve grieved already–
that nothing could make them stay,
spirit them away
from what would take them.
But good ongoing
brings fresh loss–even the sweetest fruit
of the tree of knowledge
hard to swallow
in such shadows.
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55 sad ones for Real Toads. (Sorry! I’ve been meaning to post something humorous, but you write what you write.) (Photograph, mine, is of some kind of apple-pear in a very poor fruit year.)
Also, the original title of this was “In Age” — this may have been a better title but I wanted to give more of a hint to the tree of knowledge metaphor–I am thinking of the understanding of the distinction between good and evil that the bite of the forbidden fruit gave. K. (Obscure– I admit it.)
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