Adam And Eve

In restful idle was no thing, was all

So perfect its ignorance, it only knew.

But a thought arose, a singular call

To recognize which of its knowledge was true.

So light came to be, instant and filling

Revolutions patterned by pulsing pinpoints

Intangible globes, their heated fingers drilling

Photons in flight, sharing no endpoint

Then came the next, water bent to state

Earths formed without effort or thought

For it knew how and what, innate

Though why and when, it duly sought

Adam it created, a blue and floating eye

Shaped and carved and placed in place

To dance alone in a vacuumed sky

Pirouettes of endless, lonesome grace

The rote ellipse becomes a prison

An unyielding tangent on a sloped curve

Crafted with ineffable precision

A tireless journey, through flagging nerve

It makes a decision, and populates space

With companions, a waltz without sound

Protected in orbit, his eyes turn to face

The zoo of the cosmos, all prancing around

In blackness deep, aglitter, aflash

None afloat, ne'er venture near

Satellitic entities tease a colossal crash

No celestial embrace, or touch, all clear

Adam journeys alone, time clocked by the route

So It plucked from his side, a sphere of great mass

The Moon, Eve, whirling about

Snared and tasked to join in with every pass

A perfect pairing, two halves at great velocity

Circling, engaging, tugging with a searching hand

At each other, tides roiling at the furious act of curiosity

Foam on beaches, water impregnated, and onto shore crawls man

Adam rejoiced at the new addition

Another to breathe in, to share a fate

Though Eve in one moment tasted affliction

Cemented inside, a hunger she could not sate

Not with Adam at her side

For a moment glimpsing all that could be

An expanse of unknown, so far, so wide

But here she stayed, body joined, mind free

And so it went, her eyes darting astray

And soon he ignored it no more

The tighter he held, the more she'd fall away

Into darkness, unknown, uncertain, unsure

"Death lies in those reaches," he'd say

"Stay safe with me, dear moon, dear Eve."

She turned her back, a response her way

That told the truth, one day she'd leave

His grip lessens, short day by short day

No hope of uniting, in herself she is split

Each month a glance, then another glance away

Gravity fails in the face of the will to quit

Independence yonder, her truest partner near

She cannot leave him high and dry

His fate before she was made to appear

She flirts at the edge of his eye

Never closer, only farther, bit by bit

She ventures away, then heeds his fear

And so they dance and twirl and flit

Separation set, though all else unclear

A somber tale of hopeless dreams

Two dancers tortured by destiny

Forever locked by geometry

This, for all eternity