Come one, come all to hear a tale
Of grand adventures, timeless life
The stories of old you've been told
Aren't quite so unreal for you now
Long ago when all was in void
The King was eternity past
He made the stars, He made the light
He made the earth and all it's life
He made the beasts in all the fields
The birds that flew throughout the skies
The deep leviathans of seas
He then turned to make you and me
We were made to be His image
Though we do not look alike Him
The image we bear, found within
The spirit inside, who we are
He made the Man, and Woman, too
Each alike, but each one unique
To guide and to build each other
Until one day they fell from Grace
Oh, Serpent, how you did bite them
Your tongue slid and did speak the lie
Oh, Woman, how you were deceived
And Man, how you were enraptured
"Now we see," says the Man to her
"We have sinned against our great King
Let us hide our shame from His eyes
So He won't know what we have done"
And so the death and evil came
To haunt them forevermore on
And thus the threefold curse was said
Upon the snake, Man, and Woman
"Upon the dirt you shall slither
And the dust you shall eat, serpent"
"In the fields, you shall toil on
And the Harvest you'll find lacking"
"Greatly multiplied your pain is
For giving birth to a child
But from you I shall rise one up
To be killed and to save all man"
And so they were cast out from home
To live in the world they poisoned
That death would come, this they now knew
But now they knew life would come, too
YOU ARE READING
Tales of the Bard
PoetryThere are many tales to be told And many things to be be known Come and gather around the fire To hear the tales that are of old
