Shiny Shiny

I don't recall being a boy

No knee-high to a grasshopper

I was the man, the first, the one that

Swallowed up the results of all of them

The reason of who and when and how

But being new from the red hot, suffocating soil full of suffering life

My breath of life through my Father

I longed to see through the eyes of my children

The shiny, shiny eyes that lingered on the forbidden tastes

Of distraction and pain

The pain of knowledge

With the tender bite of satisfaction

“Shiny, shiny,” my eyes read back to Eve

As she handed me such a treat

Such a trick

Shiny, shiny, my heart filled up with too much blood and love

I don't recall being a boy

I didn't have one such time I could create my boyhood in a treat

But boy oh boy

Was that bite delicious

Even after the war in my heart and mouth turned it to dust

Dust like me

I never wanted to forsake my Father

I was only one man

I grappled with the angles of despair as I haughtily exorcised

The following of hell

With an Angel by my side, like a part of my arm

I fell to the fiery pit, looking up at heaven

Remembering that first bite.