I married an apple from a tree
Speaking insightful words of humanity
Lo, a serpent encircled my mind
Venom in my heart, foreshadow on my mind
Expediently, I clothed my nakedness
In a cloak warmed by temptation's kiss
Away I fled from the paradise embrace
The serpent and my spine still interlaced
Miles down the trail of the damned
I happened upon a kind, gentle man
Who spoke unto me words soft and sweet
I knelt before him, the apple at his feet
"Stranger," quote I to his grace
Though he broke my quote with a gnarled face
"Death, decay, corruption," he versed
And I left him speaking things worse
The serpent tightened around my spine
And with the apple outstretched I raced for time
Down a path quite black and dreary
Until a woman I met, smiling cheerfully
Courtly, I bowed with majesty
And placed the apple at her feet so dainty
A smile crept across her face
Optimistic vengeance gave her words a bitter taste
"Happy love-joys and nosegays
And thank the Lord for each sunny day."
And yes the sun did shine, and
Her words seemed lost in this paradise land
By the grace of God she saw the apple
And how it gleamed and appeared so ample
Alas she only let it go to waste
As she thought of how delicious smashed apple might taste
And of all those people, one happy and glad
The other lonely and mad
I thought of them as I returned to the garden in loss
With a new idea of humanity, and a pulpy applesauce