After Eden

Blue Wall, Green Leaves

Was it the tree? Was it our choice
to be like gods that day?
That fruit, recall, did not agree.
Perhaps it really was the tree
when we did not obey.

Chelsea Owens challenges us to write a rant for this month’s A Mused Poetry Contest. Ranting gives me a chance to blame someone besides myself.

I was thinking of Genesis 3. Imagine what Adam and Eve might have said to each other after eating from the tree that gave them the knowledge of good and evil along with the realization, to their surprise, that they weren’t good enough to be gods.

I don’t recall that they actually blamed the tree in Genesis, but they might as well have. I wonder what God would have done if they repented then and there, broke their rant, and blamed themselves?

Regardless, were I in their place given my own history of messing things up, I shudder to think what would have happened.

Red, Green and White

Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

14 thoughts on “After Eden”

  1. Great post…I could say a lot about the scene in the garden, but… I’ve made plenty of bad choices, poor decisions. I guess ignorance doesn’t hold much sway. Blessings to you.

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  3. I’m not sure what God would have done, if they’d repented right there. It was the one rule He gave them and they disregarded it. If I’d been there, though I’d like to think differently, I probably would have tasted the fruit.

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