When He Planted in the Earth

When He planted in the earth

a tree of life, a tree of death

(the latter with a curse of woe)

did God say that this was good?

And when He placed upon the grass

the serpent Satan and his crew,

did He ever stop to think

why the Devil envied God?

When Adam spied inside the bower

that Eve was naked and alone,

Was it Satan, was it God

Who put the worm in Adam’s blood?

And when God wept and cried some more

inside a cloud of smoke and gas,

was it then he drew the map

and timeline of the mighty Flood?

And when he slayed Abram’s son,

poor Isaac, on the crooked cross,

was that the point he heard the call

of the gentile Kierkegaard?