Eve's Fruit

Eve's Fruit
by

Melinda Everett

How can I love you?

Knowing that you are breaking my heart

Taking me apart

Brick by brick

My layers are undone

You're suppose to be my rock

But you're a snake

That bites.

The poison flowing toward my beating pulse

I need a cure from this inflicted illness

It is killing love

It is stealing life.

That precious thing you had twisted

It isn't alive anymore.

It is rotten and stinking,

Food for the worms,

How can you cause this death?

How can you live with it?

Stop hurting me!

The shock of it has blackened my soul

It has changed my role.

I want to run and hide.

Your face is the devil

Your words lies

Your eyes wicked

I want you back the way you were

The before and not the after

The dove not the snake

Why did you eat the fruit?