Lilith
She stood alone upon craggy rocks,
waves breaking out at sea.
Her hair was wild, clothes in tatters,
Her eyes were large and free.
Three angles held aloft their wings,
“Lilith you cannot leave him there.
Paradise is so much better,
when you’re working in a pair.”
She threw back her head and laughed
“He wants to be my leader,
We were both born from the dirt,
Neither one is better than the other.”
“You’ll die out here all by yourself,
Why not accept his coupling?
Independence won’t keep you warm at night
a woman without her man is nothing.”
“So, make a new one from his rib,
She can be his lover.
I’ll rely on my intuition and my cunning.
As you say, a woman; without her, man is nothing.”
About the Creator
N J Delmas
I lean towards the darker side of fiction and poetry. I love folk lore, fairy tales, ghosts and witches, often giving old themes a new twist. I have published with several magazines and am in the process of writing a dark YA fiction.
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