
Patricia Bansil
Author

Una Villano
Layout Artist
The Fruit of Defiance Defining Love
Forbidden fruit on the hill, tenacity in evil or tenacity in love?
A saturnine setting of sun bedimming as heaven shakes above
The weight of sin falls on the lovers’ shoulders, one bite had done enough
But tell me, past the seventh day of creation, was the decision a dream undreamed of?
“Then you shall be as gods,” six syllables the serpent stated
And her five light fingers picked the fruit from the tree to defy what was dictated
She was caught on the carrefour of the choice and chance this proposal created
And the three by the tree stood, by the promise, entranced and sedated
Two took bite of humanity’s downfall and so it, too, was fated
The exile, the anger, the wrath punishment along with the storm soon abated
I have loved you enough that the fall from grace results in apathy
And the fruit of knowledge simply comes as sweet as your warmth to me
I have loved you as him who wanted to behold her in every perspective he can see
I have loved you as her who yearned for truth and took the chance dauntlessly
I have loved you as it who couldn’t wish to leave them behind, both naive and unfree
I am the desire that you could not tame, that tempted you to that tree
And from our love bloomed the fall of man,
The closed gates of the garden as the master turned his other hand
They all say I have given you a love in arrogance
So hold me as we walk toward the barren lands
I want to worship you in the familiarity of evil and in spite of it
To dance in the suffering our love has dared commit
I wish not to love you encaged in the perfect paradise we never earned but won
We have found our love as we lost our Eden, and our banishment cannot be undone