‘The First Woman, The Lost Paradise and The Death of Man’

Of woman first born

as Eve, she was hallowed

for her invention

of speech from the serpent

of Eden- the tree in that garden

which allowed human speech.

The lore was true,

as women proved

the mettle of transcendence;

the fact of persevering her alone,

bereft of her beloved.

Adam was forced

to stay alone for duties

on Eve’s say, and

the duty and place were classified by Eve.

The eager she flaunted

on caressing her tresses-

Adam couldn’t stand-

aroused the first anxiety in man

to be not alone, away from

the woman.

On asking about the sandal scented breasts

ornated with necklaces, she said

it was her womanhood-the first woman

to be praised and it went on-goes on-

but, man was always in delusion

of his love and loved.

Adam waited for Eve-

at the advent of summer-

at the riverside, watching

the flux of river current,

he was in thoughts, deep thoughts

of the current running deep inside the river,

where things flow with it, without

their knowledge; an unconscious

flow of water. He awaited Eve.

Eve sounded apart, no thoughts

as such. They have learnt speech

and she used it without such thoughts.

Adam’s notion on Eve-

I was traveling through unknown alleys,

which you have already decided.

Adam couldn’t feel Eve, apart from

the urge, his and hers.

He could learn about the depth

Of the river current, but

Could never know the depth

of Eve-if there was, is-

He was later at the receiving end

Of her criticism, her flaws,

encircling him alone in a solitary earth-

a slave praying to return back

to the paradise, the lost paradise,

he tried to build upon the earth.

The Earth cannot be a paradise,

as Eve cannot be a Beatrix,

recounting at death, but

successors suffered.