Maybe we learned
The pleasure of sin
From Adam, not Eve
.
Maybe we learned
The power of sex
From Adam, not Eve
.
Maybe Cain learned
That Abel could die
From Adam, not Eve
.
Maybe we learned
The earth could be tamed
From Adam, not Eve
.
Maybe we learned
That wars could be ‘won’
From Adam, not Eve
.
Maybe
.
© Gayle Force Press 2011
A poem by Franklin Oliver