History by Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht

History by Jennifer Michael Hecht

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Another argument about things I believe in. Why can’t I just be left alone. If we all think alike then what kind of world would it be?

History

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Even Eve, the only soul in all of time

to never have to wait for love,

must have leaned some sleepless nights

alone against the garden wall

and wailed, cold, stupified, and wild

and wished to trade-in all of Eden

to have but been a child.

In fact, I gather that is why she leapt and fell from grace,

that she might have a story of herself to tell

in some other place.

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