The Garden

Of all the trees please freely eat

Enjoy the fruit they give

They were created to sustain your life

So you may always live

There are thousands of trees for you

Eat from all you choose

But there is one that you should not touch

The moment you do, you lose

So man planted an orchard and drank

Another and ate of its food

Another and inhaled the aroma sweet

And like his Father said this is good.

He planted yet another seed

This time inside his wife

And enjoyed the children born to him

and learned he too, could bring forth life

So man enjoyed his time in Paradise

Existing in a utopian state

Not knowing that a single bite

Would one day seal his fate.

But the one who ate of the tree before

Chose to share his newfound knowledge

For misery does love company

For that we must acknowledge

You see knowledge gives birth to pride

So man thought he could do it better

But everything he did create

Just shackled him in fetters.

He built his own prison

With the trees he did fell

And as knowledge increased more and more

He traded Paradise for hell.

He invented seeds to make him happy

To take away his pain

And seeds to calm his children

And seeds to keep him sane

Man forgot all about the garden

Where true life really grows

And now he’s searching for meaning

Because he’s reaping what he sowed.