The Living Legacy<\/em>.<\/p>\nMOTHER LOAD<\/p>\n
From the very beginning
\nThe burden was clear
\nSometimes bearable
\nSometimes severe<\/p>\n
Ate from the apple
\nShared it with him
\nDisobeyed the order
\nIndulged the whim.<\/p>\n
What was the outcome?
\nThe fruit of the act?
\nDid she \u2018know\u2019 good and evil?
\nDid she experience it in fact?<\/p>\n
Did the earth creature join her?
\nDid he crumble into dust?
\nDid he die in an instant?
\nOr just tumble into lust?<\/p>\n
To love and to cherish
\nBecomes \u2018desire and dominate\u2019
\nObjectify the \u2018other\u2019
\nSo you can subjugate.<\/p>\n
Suddenly self conscious
\nInstantly aware
\nThere are no coverings
\nOnly nakedness there.<\/p>\n
Hiding in the garden,
\nThe creature in shame
\nRunning from her Maker
\nLike some kind of game.<\/p>\n
Passing the blame on
\nFrom God to the wife,
\nFrom the wife to the snake
\n\u2018The\u2019 creator of strife.<\/p>\n
Banished from the garden,
\nBut clothed by their God
\nNot allowed to live forever
\nFind a living from the sod<\/p>\n
Pain in her labor
\nShortness of breath
\nThe mother of all living
\nGives birth near to death<\/p>\n
And would she be able
\nTo raise Cain at all?
\nOr will her next offspring
\nBe first to fall?<\/p>\n
And how to redeem this?
\nSet the process in reverse
\nPut a stop to the death toll
\nUndoing the curse?<\/p>\n
II<\/p>\n
From the very beginning
\nThe burden was clear
\n\u201cBe it unto me as you said,
\nThe Lord\u2019s servant is here.\u201d<\/p>\n
A virginal conception
\nHad a child without a man
\nWhich no one expected
\nAnd few would understand.<\/p>\n
She received a word of warning
\nA sword would pierce her soul
\nBut the death of her first born
\nWould make the race whole.<\/p>\n
There beneath a crooked tree
\nStood that woman and a man
\nNeither disobeyed the orders
\nEach accepting the plan.<\/p>\n
Then He rose in the garden
\nReopened its gate
\nTo the tree for the living
\nTo the Adam without mate.<\/p>\n
And there in the Scriptures
\nWas a promise true and sure
\n\u201cShe\u2019ll be saved through the childbearing\u201d
\nThat Mary did endure.<\/p>\n
The story revisited
\nThe human tale revised
\nMotherlode now delivered
\nCurse reversed before our eyes.<\/p>\n
Dec. 20th 2005<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> [Modern Painting next to the restored Pool of Siloam] \u00a0 This poem taken from the book entitled The Living Legacy<\/em>.<\/p>\n