The Trees of Eden
“When one is one within oneself
one is one with god”
- Ancient proverb
We are all born in eden
but few of us can stay for life,
one by one we wander off
and never find the way back;
wherever one walks in eden,
one is always on a road,
and everything one eats
becomes a sweet ripe fruit,
but outside of eden we cannot walk
without bumping into a tree,
and every fruit we bite into starts
rotting at once, becoming waste,
no wonder we often dream
about life back in eden
and even look for a road
that might lead back there,
but on the way back we keep bumping
into trees that that split us in half,
one part made of pain
and the other of dreams,
and the two parts keep bumping
into each other worse than trees.
It is whispered by the leaves
that one can get back into eden
only when one can be one
within oneself and one without;
and that’s why no one never
bumps into the trees of eden.
Copyright 2007 by the Tipton Poetry Journal.
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