You Young Wild Thing

The Sacred Fruit of God

God gave Adam and Eve a garden
And he said everything as far as they can see
Belonged to them
This place and its trees
Its warmth and safety
Is their home
And there was no rules
No exceptions
Or expectations
Except for one thing
You see that tree there in that far corner
With the fruit dangling atop each branch
Don't eat that fruit
It's the fruit of sin
The fruit of all things bad
I suspect you don't want that
Leave it alone and all will work out

Adam and Eve
The first and only people
In a garden grown to home them
Having never known chaos or rage
Never having known fear
Safety was always a given
Warmth and bravery were simple
For sin didn't exist
So, why would they listen
How were they to know a thing about death
About fear
About warnings
When they were never taught
Or shown destruction
How are we to blame them for their lack of survival instincts
When god didn't bother to teach them

Eve grew curious
What's all the rage with this fruit
That if eaten brings upon this thing called sin
That she's told is bad
But she doesn't know what bad is
What she does know, however
Is that fruit looks awfully delicious
Dangling there from its branch
Ripe and in perfect condition
Shining in the sun beckoning her forward
Eat me, eat me, eat me
It whispers gently
A mothers coo; a lullaby
Eat me, eat me, eat me
Please

And so, Eve reached out
Gently, she cradled the fruit
Between her palms, feeling it's skin
Soft and supple
Juice spilling from within
Landing on the ground in a pool
As she sunk her lips gently against it
And drank from it calmly
A smile born from its sweet taste
Sits gently on her face
A sweet innocence furrows around her
Curiosity quenched
An adventure she'd taken
And rather quite enjoyed
How was she to know she was wrong
When it tasted so good

Eve sank her teeth into the skin of a women
And drank the sweet sap of her body
Eve held her softly
Making sure to keep her near
This beautiful woman; a sweet tangerine
Her lips taste of cherries
And her fingers are soft like kiwi
Her cheeks a peach blush
This beautiful woman; a fruit dangling from a tree
Together they lock and intertwine
The naturalness of this felt right
Eve couldn't understand how this could be wrong
When it felt so warm
The woman—the fruit—held her gently too
Together; warm bodies dancing
Held like a lifeline

And when Adam found out
His anger ravishing
And destructive
Jealousy is a damning thing
The fruit was a women
And Eve got to her first
And he couldn't have that
So he tore Eve from her body
And sunk himself into her place
When she—the fruit—screamed
In confusion, in pain
He held her down
He was going to drink the sap of her body
The way his wife had
Because he could not bare
Her loving a woman
That he hadn't gotten to first

God wasn't mad
No, he couldn't be
God knew he'd set them up for failure
He hadn't properly taught them about danger
They had no fear of death
Because they didn't know what death was
They had no fear of danger
Because danger wasn't real
They'd never had a threat
He knew they'd eat that fruit
It was a matter of when not if
But he stuck to his word
And punished them for eternity
And cast their whole people to a life of the same damnation
For the crime of eating fruit

It was decided Eve must be punished first
And more harshly
Because she tempted Adam
As if he weren't a full grown man in control of his body
As if God wasn't the one that gave them free will
He could have said no
He could have walked away
And he could have let it go
But his anger was far too great
To let Eve be with a woman
He hadn't already touched
Free will goes out the window when the golden boy sins
And a woman was the one to give him the fruit

Then it was decided Adam wouldn't be punished much
He was taught sin
And banished from the garden
But that was all the punishment he got
Eve can't say the same
She was alienated from God
Alienated from Adam
Alienated from her maternal body
And childbearing including birth was now painful
Thus creating periods and the pain that comes with
She too, would be banished from the garden
And called a sinful creature

The inequity of the punishments
I wish was surprising
But there's this expectation that woman are careful and smart
That they don't have weak moments
Or lapses in judgment
Women are expected to not do a single horrid thing
Simply because they're women and women do better than that
Thus punishment for them is much harsher
Though, Adam chose to eat that fruit just as much as she did
They excused it under the pretense of temptation
As if the word no were not part of his vocabulary
As if temptation were the same as forced intercourse

Eve sunk her teeth into the skin of a woman
And sipped from the sweet sap of her body
Adam sank his teeth into the skin of a woman
And chugged the sap of her body
In the name of revenge and jealousy
Yet, Eves gentleness was met with far worse punishment
Than Adam and his greed
What kind of lesson are you teaching
With Adam and Eve
Women are completely and totally responsible for men
Or that men aren't responsible for anything because they're men

What's the lesson of
God
He punished a woman for not keeping her man on a leash
Accusing her of temptation simply because she's a woman
He let a man off easy
Because he's a man with no responsibility
Which Eve—of course—should have known
He punished them for a crime he knew they'd commit
Because he never taught them fear
Is that not a crime of its own right
Setting the innocent up to fail
Purposefully, so you can punish them
All for his own enjoyment
God's sacred fruit
A trap for the weak; the vulnerable

What's the lesson to be learned
That God himself is a sexist deity
Or that God himself is a cheat
A deity who lies and sets everyone up to fail
All in the name of his own gain
A God that punishes people for being greedy
By being greedy himself
A deity born from contradiction

What's the lesson born and taught
From the garden and its tree in the far corner
With fruit dangling from each branch
What's the lesson gained
From Adam and Eve
Is there even any
Or is it all a lavish story
Told to make death sound kind
Is there any sort of truth to the story
And if there is
Why the hell have we all gone along with it?