Genesis 1

I'm not really sure how Genesis came to be, but it was very fun to write.  It has also inspired me to quite possibly put the rest of The Old Testament to rhyme.  Enjoy.

Desert rain on sacred sands dowses parched and foreign lands

Hot earth screams in painful grief cracked and gaping seeks relief

Pre-dawn echoes with the sound of arid static ‘cross the ground

Yet with the rays of early dawn, eking forth life inches on

Man not yet has seen this place nor sought the joy of summer’s face

As though from magic the urge does grow to put forth seed and let it grow

Can he plant upon this place a crop of hope save from disgrace?

Each day in passing great care is spent removing weeds soiled back is bent

To labor long alone finds he empty without company

Into a slumber he is sent to no more be a lonely gent

For in that slumber greatness transpires, beauty to match 10,000 fires

She’ll be called Eve, ‘the end of day’, when rays of sun shall pass away

The union of these ancient hearts insures mankind ne’r here departs

For like the crops sown in the earth joy from joining’s given birth

The courtship plans are carefully set a night these souls shall not forget

Into each other’s eyes they stare engulfed in summer evening air

Unknown to both from ‘neath the ground into their realm it fought to bound

Depravity, Deceit, Denial sprung from the Styx across the Nile

“I’ll rule this place – this garden green” into a tree it slipped unseen

The pomme de mort was giv’n to she to share with he – humanity

Then Heaven cried and the Father knew these children had His knowledge too

An acrid presence filled the air no longer a garden but a snare!

Their eyes wide open ashamed were they - they ran and hid. Perfect? Not they.

Banished now by God himself that God damned apple brought death not wealth

Desert rain on sacred sands falls now upon another’s hands

The peaceful one Noah is he constructs an ark monstrosity

Again mankind has failed to be what was to be perfect like He

And in due time the Father rid of all he'd made 'cept Noah's kin

Hot earth screams in painful grief cracked and gaping seeks relief

Pre-dawn echoes with the sound of arid static ‘cross the ground

Yet with the rays of early dawn, in pairs of two life inches on

Far away the rains did fall