CASUS NOSTER [X]

CASUS NOSTER

The bite boomed

throughout the entire Garden;

You would have leapt back

from the shock, had it not been

for the sweet delectable taste

in your (now aching) mouth.

You held the Fruit up to your mouth

and looked at me with wondering eyes.

But somehow still

You were not wondering

but I could tell that dearly

you knew:

You knew the bounds of the heart

that I had felt

when my teeth sank into

that gleaming Flesh;

you were able to feel a thing

outside of the bounds

of this Garden –

a longing known only by

me

after I tasted that

firm, supple flesh

of the Fruit.

Your breath quickened

and your lips watered,

dreaming of more flesh

of the Fruit

or mine.

You said nothing.

I grabbed your shoulder

softly

and shook you gently.

“Adam:

What has befallen you,

Husband?”

You turned and looked at the gates

and your face was blank.

“What have I done,”

you asked,

“since my creation?

I have tilled this Garden

and cared for it

on command alone.

But now,

I know not how command

is meaningful

when this new

impassioned inclining

lingers deeply within

my being.”

I went over to you

atop the hill

and under the Tree

to look out at the Garden

with you.

Our eyes looked over this land

that God gave to us:

The greenness

and the liveliness

all seemed like nothing

now that this love

was deep within ourselves.

I turned to you

and you to me;

you grabbed my shoulders

and I your hips

and we pulled each other

closer

closer

closer

until our moist lips met

in a manner never seen

in this Garden.

After,

we pulled away,

our eyes still locked within one another’s

as our lips were before.

“Adam.”

“Eve.”

“My Love.”

“My Love.”

Suddenly our hands met

and we rushed from atop the hill

and down to the bushes

by the hushing river

where we spent our nights –

our breath was quicker

and my heart

was pounding deeply

as it never had before.

We moved into the clearing

by that soothing river

and quickly took to the ground

as we had before –

Only now

this was not from any command.

We entangled ourselves

within each other

and let our flesh graze over

each other’s lips –

again and again

our lips met

in moistness,

dripping of something much more sweet

than that Fruit.

Your voice grunted

and mine ached

higher

and higher

until for once I felt

my body tense

and yours heavy with its pushing –

warmed in the cusp of daylight.

Then,

in a move so unheard of,

I grabbed your wrists

and pulled you down

to the ground,

and I climbed upon you

to (for once)

push.

Your body was still moving,

your breath was still heavy.

I had broken you

with my body.

Time passed

and our bodies grew limp,

strained from that pushing,

that love

in the daylight

and without command.

We lied on the ground

together,

you held me dearly

in your tired arms.

Our lips met again

and again

and again.

We knew we were no longer

among the Beasts:

we had our pleasures

and they had their command –

we evolved beyond command

and simply took our pleasures.

But with those pleasures

came something

uneasy

within our bodies.

This thing we had never felt –

like love

only much more unsettling.

We looked down at our naked bodies –

still soaked with our pleasure’s sweat –

and felt unright.

You and I scurried over

to the nearest

thickest

bush

and hid within its lush leaves

until we heard that booming

come down from above.