Eve

Peel the skin
Taste the fruit
Each segment
Resplendent in its taste
Each pip a seed of new life.
Our birthright
All the herbs of the land
Trees and plants-
Except one.
Eve tricked by a serpent
Now a cherubim
Guards the gates.

By Raymond Enisuoh

See: http://www.avogel.ca/avogelinstitute/en/index.php