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By Ali Date: 2005 Feb 13 Comment on this Work [[2005.02.13.15.35.13077]] |
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This is the story that you don't know, But it is also the one that you think You do. Arising from the dust, a show Of sight and sound, Adam was created. A man, not woman born, but Heavenly so, Crafted from the dust of the Earth, But not destined to be alone, but to know The face and love of another--born of the same Windswept particles. Adam's Lilith was to be His companion in the Garden, a forever-love. And yet, free-will is a strange things to see, As complacency was not woman's first breath. Now, Lilith--whether she left or was banished, It was because she would only love and honor-- Not obey. And so, the first Woman vanished Only to become a myth, almost impossible to explain. For, what is love, if it is not based in equality? One standing, the other with a bended knee-- The true allure of the heart is not founded in frivolity, But in shared trial and triumph, bed and benediction. Vilified through the years, her memory assaulted By the tongues of men and women, turned demonic And horrid, rendered evil and beyond faulted, But of her true self, little known-- Save this: Lilith was the first woman With a mind and heart of her own. |