The Moonlit Garden

the moonlit garden.
___________

All around The
Moonlit Garden,
Serpents chatter
in Angelic Tongue..

Envious that My
Soul was Pardoned!

(By the Ever-
Fallen One.)

I have eaten the
Golden Apple of
Love's Discord,

(and found it
Wanting.)

gazing across
Hell's Crimson
Shore!

(and the view
was rather
Haunting.)

Yet..what is
this which
stains the Face
of Twilight?

This Beauty
hidden from
my sight..

and how long
has it been
creeping in
Dark Shadow
beyond The
Light?!

(such beauty
I suspect is
likely but A
Parasite.)

As I sit
again in
This Moonlit
Garden,

(where Serpents
once chattered in
Angelic Tongue.)

I realize
now I won't
be Pardoned..

By "Her"!!

(The All Consuming
One.)

j.stephen.h.