Unfortunately, any
coin carrier could become
a vile liar.
[Grace]
If you speak true; every
view given eschews
certainty regarding your’s,
or anyone’s, words spoken
to me who might not
see through their sly cleverness
causing much distress.
[Marlene]
Do not forget belief, faith
and trust to gain relief from
hopelessness and your
despair to regain your best
self affirmations
and retain your confidence
in any friend upon whom
you always depend.
It’s no coincidence that
birds of a feather
flock together, however,
in your case, it’s people’s traits
that attract and bait
others to congregate as
like minded fellows
whose words and actions echo
those enclosed within your soul,
if you’d be exposed
favorably to embrace
those exact same traits.
The conundrum of free will
and choice is the ill effects
from our awesome
burden to choose, deprived of
useful omniscience.
With presence of mind we can
dine on the solution to
our illusions,
if you’re inclined to do so.
Ironically,
a key enlightenment will
be found in the document
labeled Genesis.
The Bible’s first book depicts
the creation of
parental Adam and Eve
that restricts all human kind
to the D N A
of these two who are our
very most distant
relatives who must obey
their Creator’s say about
their stay in Eden.
I label this ironic
because the first sin,
original sin, is thought
to be extremely toxic,
and that their crime was
emphatic noncompliance
of the Lord God’s law,
but there is a vital flaw
in such thinking that’s missing
hidden subtleties
of Eve’s defiance. Foremost
is reliance on
interpretations bound by
literal meaning only.
[Grace]
I quite agree. You’ve
found the ground upon which I
stand to demand that
we, both, have asserted that
evolution, not divine
intervention, caused
Homo sapiens to shine
and define our
current dominance over
Earth’s girth and creatures therein.
[Marlene]
You win. This text’s traits
shun scientific debates.
If not science, then,
when considering view points,
hitherto, sacred writings
must do as being
cauldrons seething with vapors
of enlightenment.
Yet fine Literary Art
starts with poetry, vivid
imagery, sound play
that’s amply filled with stunning
metaphors and more
such devices that entice
souls to seek more than a tour
of surface meaning
to get a peek at deeper
unrevealed portents
hidden in entanglements
of superficial cliché.
The undisputed
fact is that an opposing
thumb of some human
hand closing around a tool
found the words to jot down this
narrative that gives
elements for reflection.
The compulsive need
to make it a sacred creed
is but a group’s opinion.
Katy’s dissection
would be an artist’s view of
cohesive gestalts.
Ascribing holiness is
an evaluation of
human perceptions.
Difference in perceptions
together with their
evaluations make for
more different religions.
I choose to reside
in Katy’s camp to revamp
this narrative’s force.
The online King James Bible
sites the snake, that enticed Eve,
as being clever
and more subtle than the beasts
feasting in Eden.