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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399536" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fall of Paradise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after John Milton) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. Lucifer </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus he rebelled without anyone stopping him, <br>wanted to put up his throne above, at times<br>equal to that of the almighty Creator<br>and approached others for this goal, <br>felt at times that his jealousy was noble<br>where he stood at the edge of the precipice<br>and thunder flashed ominous around him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He dragged a third of once holy ones along<br>to all at once squander their lives, <br>joy, virtue and nobility <br>and along with them<br>later missed the glory, peace and love<br>of the heavens and knew<br>that he (the flaming son of the morning) <br>is trivial to the Most High (who is always honourable) <br>could not even stand in His shade<br>and through stars, he had torn, through the heavens<br>to declare war, as in his heart he wanted to win<br>as if insanity was eating <br>through every reason and sensibility<br>and had destroyed his nobility.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he stood alone in front of Michael and thunderbolts, <br>suns and comets was thrown at him<br>at supreme command, he new pain and misery<br>was banned from heaven, with all of his rebellious team<br>was crackled down in flames<br>and in his heart he had to admit that it was just, <br>that he could not give life to anything<br>and could not comprehend or have love anymore; <br>as might, his splendour, <br>his own power had overwhelm him <br>and then he could still fall on his knees and beg for mercy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but he was far too proud for it<br>and he wanted to take revenge on the Almighty One<br>where he cunningly deceived man<br>and got some more victims for his own punishment<br>but for man God himself came to pay the price, <br>Lucifer was convinced that death on the cross<br>was the end of God, as God had become man, <br>in his heart Lucifer thought that he had won<br>and when God rose staying available for man<br>Lucifer could still not comprehend or explain love<br>or what it is to as God have the power to life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II. After that initial awakening</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After that initial awakening<br>Adam realised that every animal had a mate<br>and in him there was a longing<br>for a companion, for someone beautiful to love</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and with infinite care God knew about his thoughts, <br>made him sleep and formed a woman from his flesh, <br>constructed a delightful charming being, <br>someone to match the longing of his soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Radiating purity and innocence<br>they stared awe struck<br>for long moment after long moment<br>when at first they became aware of each other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God Himself bonded them in connubial love, <br>told them to multiply, to engage with each other<br>in the act of utter joy and there was sheer magic<br>and tenderness while in each other’s arms they did rest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such sweet happiness, sprung from love<br>physical, spiritual and for God divine<br>and was in the tender care<br>with which they ruled the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They made sheer intimate passionate love, <br>without realising their nakedness<br>found beauty, love and tranquillity<br>in ever movement, in every tender gesture</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and it was if there was magic to everything, <br>as if in each insect, animal, plant and tree<br>they found something inspiring<br>while they lived with freedom of choice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III. Glorious did that snake appear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glorious did that snake appear, <br>with its scales glittering in the sun, <br>in a place of perfection<br>its charm, its voice did stun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its deception mixed truth and lie, <br>enticed the woman Eve, <br>to reach for more knowledge, <br>to reach for godliness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To her the love <br>of her husband Adam was secure<br>and in perfection, in sheer innocence<br>she looked at that snake with an own radiance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The longer they talked the more she longed, <br>not for the fruit of life, for immortality, <br>but to enter into the unknown <br>and by disobedience the fall of man did begin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The taste was sweet but mortality was in it, <br>it made both Adam and Eve aware<br>of their sheer nakedness, <br>brought destruction to a world without strive, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but still the two humans instinctively knew<br>that in all of this, in the sin that they entered in<br>God had a plan for the salvation of man, <br>a plan that was unspoken but existed as a token of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV. How will I now see the face of God or of His angels? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Adam after the fall of man) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How will I now see the face <br>of God or any of His angels? <br>Will it be with sheer joy, <br>in a blaze of clear light? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or will I forever be afraid, <br>be scared of wrath, of judgement of the brightness<br>that reveals the darkness of my heart, <br>that reveals the darkness of my passions? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this glade where I am hiding, <br>where leaves are covering <br>my beloved Eve and me, <br>I long for some tranquillity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but my own iniquity, our sin<br>is darkening everything<br>and there’s shame, <br>so much of it </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that I do not know<br>how to face God the righteous One, <br>or even one of his angel messengers<br>and I am longing to be forever hidden.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V. There was some tranquillity in His voice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Adam after the fall of man) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was some tranquillity in His voice<br>while He called us to appear, <br>to where He was wandering in the garden<br>but in nakedness we were hiding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His piercing brightness made the darkness<br>where we were hiding day, <br>and He had seen us sin, <br>had seen us changing the way that things were</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to devastation, to pain and suffering<br>and He told us about the earth being cursed, <br>to bring forth thorns and thistles, <br>about the struggle to earn a living, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">about death that at a time will be approaching, <br>will be approaching everything that lives<br>and He made clothes of skin, <br>to cover our nakedness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">told about the time when He would come, <br>to crush the head of the snake, <br>to die for our sins like the lamb <br>that He had slaughtered for us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We knew that the punishment for sin was death, <br>that all things living would change, <br>with lions, leopards, wolfs<br>preying on gazelles, on antelope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was clear that His words were true, <br>that He truly loved us<br>even though we had fallen to sin<br>and His eyes were full of pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when He looked at us<br>and we did not really realize<br>the destruction, the pain and the hardship<br>that we had brought about</div><div style="margin:10px 0">not until much later, when our son Cain<br>killed his brother Able<br>but we cuddled together<br>when He left us and loved each other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I knew that day by day<br>our bodies was weakening, <br>saw the strain, the sorrow<br>on my darling, Eve’s, face</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while I held her while she was crying<br>another plan to reverse things<br>suddenly came to mind<br>and I wanted to get fruit from the tree of life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but He knew all things<br>and before I could even reach that tree<br>He banished us from the garden of Eden, <br>driving us out into the wilderness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I struggled to understand this<br>while mighty brilliant cherubim ready for battle<br>was patrolling at the entrance to Eden, <br>with drawn flaming swords.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: The Holy Bible, “Paradise Lost” by John Milton.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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I. Lucifer 

Thus he rebelled without anyone stopping him, 
wanted to put up his throne above, at times
equal to that of the almighty Creator
and approached others for this goal, 
felt at times that his jealousy was noble
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