Apple Tree

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by Elipsia_Gala

by Elipsia_Gala

Bright and Red Delicious

Blood drips from your lip in the moonlight

As you're stripped of your hopes and dreams

A thick cord slung around your supple skin

It almost feels like a sin

To imagine the forbidden fruit of the boy

Whose life will be dashed away

He comes to mark his love

The snake, the vile reptile!

Forcing Eves to take the bite of God's fruit.

Heedless, they walk closer

Carving bark with their sharpened knives,

to evade time's erosion.

They should suffer─ I spit─ they should pay.

Eve inching closer to his face

In my eyes Adam is no longer

but a mound of scales and fangs

I bear the burden of God on my shoulders

with steely retribution.

Eve is crying under the apple tree

While Adam is pulled away

The moon bears witness to the sinner's cruel fate

And as he screams in chunks and grotesque squeals

I merely hoot and holler

I stare at his swinging corpse above me with an apple in my hand.