i'll be your reward
and you can be my punishment
and sometimes try the other way around
you can try and grapple me
right underneath the apple tree
where sweet forbidden fruit rots on the ground
i'll be Adam
you be both Lilith and Eve at once
and naked in the lonely garden
all my tears shall flow
i am warning you
you do not want to see this through
the magic of the mystery
is this: you still don't know
it's not fair of me
to keep you waiting hopelessly
like it's not fair of you
to make me want to cry
it's not real though
it's only in my head and so
the fuck. why not. maybe.
perhaps. just once before i die.
Little Flower Book by Wayne Myers