Eden

Teeth sunken into fresh renewed
Lapping up the most bittersweet
Purest desires well imbued
Despite glaring stains of deceit

Word and warning all rendered moot
Every thought of safety, vanished
How tempting is forbidden fruit
When one is ever so famished?

Heads covered, requiem of shame
Plucked from the darkest of shadows
Fingers pointed, words made to blame
Serpent's promises so hollow

Mind opened to the world beyond
The walls of Eden, eternal
Bear the scars of the devil's spawn
Fruit born, decisions now final

Hear the lyre sing of the garden
And that blemish of ash and soot
Imperfect, maimed with banishment
Paradise to be man's pursuit