Completion of the Deed

Completion of the Deed

i don't have much faith in apples

or so-called wisdom

philosophers are like priests

gone wrong

professing faith

in critical thinking

all the time making up

distorted proverbs to live by

and die by

while that worm

eats the core of the apple

munches down all the sane

thoughts 

as we bite down on life

Chew on the red skin

or green skin

apples aren't racist

just fascist 

when the tree is shaken

and the smart folks

gather in the garden

to strike their teeth on truth

but remain silent

and let the serpents run wild

as fear makes up our minds

to evacuate eden

in retreat.

erin-cilberto

1/10/25

Reviews

[Soren]

Choices Jacob, the tree of life in its eternal ignorance or knowledge and death. In the end knowledge is just to find that there is no truth and we remain in ignorance regardless. A cruel cosmic joke that there never was a choice. God or nature is laughing and the serpent still bites our heel. Achillies found out the hard way. A deep philisophical poem that chides man's arrogance and predicts the outcome of technology and pseudo wisdom. Nicely written with a great metaphor and great flow culminating in the punch line that is powerful and pertinent to today's world. Very nicely done