This Eden

August 21, 2011 at 8:00 pm · Filed under Good stuff, Poems, Romance ·Tagged adam & Eve, author, Charles L. Mashburn, family, Garden of Eden, http://gooseberrygoespoetic.blogspot.com/, love, poetry, writer

Jingle Poetry has moved to a new site, and is now “The Gooseberry Garden”. The poem I’m posting today is a new one –I wrote it Friday–and is in response to the theme they’ve chosen this week, “Adam and Eve”. I think you might be surprised at what I’ve done with the topic. The poem is another one for Sherry, as we continue celebrating our life together. I hope you enjoy it.

This Eden

 

The date of our beginning together

Came and went last week

And it caused me to reflect once again

On something that has often crossed my mind

 

What if? I sometimes wonder

We had met when we were young

Would our years together now be forty or more

Would our love have been as great then

 

And what if our beginning had been the beginning

I wonder had you been Eve and I Adam

To have had the whole world and God’s awesome love

Just you and me with all creation to share

 

Would we have fallen to the serpent’s snare

Believed his lies and tricks

Perhaps it would have been so

But even then we would still have had each other

 

These dreams of what might have been

Though wonderful to think upon

Mean nothing, for now is all that matters

You and I forever in this Eden we’ve been given

 

Copyright © 2011 C. Mashburn

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