Seed

Seed

And on Day Three

The earth brought forth

Its fruitful trees

To bear their seed

 

The Man to tend

Them all but one

The Woman too

His helping hand

 

The Serpent sowed

A seed of doubt

She saw the fruit

Seemed good to eat

 

There stood the Tree

Its fruit at first

Had tasted sweet

Then bitter thirst

Their doom was set

The Man for thorns

The Woman pain

The Serpent dust

And enmity

Did grow between

The Serpent's and

The Woman's Seed

There stood the Tree

The Man wore thorns

The Woman wept

The Serpent bit

 

There stood the Tree

Its fruit was felled

Its seed went deep

Beneath the hill

Unless a seed

Falls in the earth

How can its fruit

Be brought to birth?

 

And on Day Three

The earth brought forth

The first fruit of

The Tree of Life

His many seeds

Have taken root

The Serpent crushed

Will bite the dust