<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=485352" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Adam, the Apple the Snake less Eve</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Adam is the man<br>obedient son of God<br>placed as the favored one in Paradise<br>and of all the fruits<br>he must all eat<br>except</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Apple (they say it could<br>be an apricot<br>or a pear, some ways to confuse<br>this myth of an apple<br>of discord) <br>the source of the test<br>for the temptation<br>to eat or not to eat? that is the</div><div style="margin:10px 0">question, and then comes the villain<br>Snake<br>the Seducer promising that if Adam<br>eats the Apple<br>he will know<br>Right from Wrong</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pleasure from Pain<br>Sorrow from Joy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is this not good after all for Man<br>to be Enlightened? I ask.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us not put Eve in the picture<br>even then<br>granting that the myth is true<br>or is it a way of literature telling<br>us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man must not know much<br>He must only obey<br>and not Use his own Mind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If i were Adam, i will do the same<br>Less Eve, I shall grab the apple and<br>chew it well, swallow it all<br>lick the last dropp of its pulp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I like to be responsible for myself Now.<br>To know Myself<br>That i have committed Sin<br>or that i have pleased God sometimes<br>or that i have too<br>displeased Him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Apple<br>Even without the Snake I know<br>I shall love the taste<br>And happier outside the gates<br>of Paradise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lots of places to go, Now, <br>adventures to make, which of course, <br>enlarges the volume of the Bible<br>a thicker book, more pages to read<br>and increase its sales.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=485352" data-title="Adam, the Apple the Snake less Eve de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="Adam is the man obedient son of God placed as the favored one in Paradise and of all the fruits he must all eat except the Apple (they say it could be an apricot or a pear, some ways to confuse this myth of an apple of discord) the source of the..."></div> </div> </div>

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