Eden

Eden

This world is lush
rich
verdant
beautiful

Peace hangs thickly
deep
quiet

Sunlight gilds the trees
dapples the ground
amid the cool shadows

I lie here and look
up
up to the sky
to the delicate, spun silver clouds
to the deep infinity
of blue

Up through the wishing tree
through the thousand thousand leaves
each a wish
a dream
a hope
a prayer

shining green and sunlit gold
brightest blue and purest white

This world is beautiful

and yet
today I know
how Adam felt
when Eve
wasn’t

there.