Redeeming Eden

There was something deeper
in the hurricane eye

as wrath swallowed Eden

Into the void
of the tenth dream
where temptation burned

the juniper tree

and the white panther
smolders in the Phlegethon

Forgive the sins of
the heretics

Ring around the Juniper tree
Juniper tree, Juniper tree
ring around the Juniper tree

burning to the ground

Sinners robed in
blue
carry the damned in red

while We cry

while We die

From the egg to the apple
now buried in the loam
Here is where the dead
hide their bones
and their bloody memories

carved from tiger eye stone
[the Tiger dwells
in darkness]

Here it hunts the little lamb
little lamb, little lamb
here it kills the little lamb;
fleece as black as death

and here is where the bodies crawl
over the ash,

ash to raise the dead
from nightmares

[Sacrificed on Sunday
in silence]

There is no speech
no dream, conception

or copulation

only light and darkness
birth and death

and but a predetermined moment
in the shadows
where breath is breath
and life is life

and the moments kneeling
in the Temple
as Martyrs, messiahs
and killers

becomes an eye for an eye
to redeem Eden

Let us forget
the ways of the word
East of Eden where

lust and power became
our inheritance

and corruption
our Bible

So now we eat dust
from bowls of sins;
it is where we were birthed

and it is where we shall die.