Nhuan LeXuan's 'Forbidden Fruit' – A Poignant Reflection on Temptation 🍎

Since the beginning – the earth full of dust, <br />The forbidden fruit in Eden still on the tree – <br />Our first ancestors ventured to eat it. Gee, <br />Doting on Eve, Adam sinned after love to lust! <br /> <br />Temptations have lured us to banned dreams <br />Just as we need passions for spell in a lifetime, <br />Hunger for sensations, a heartwarming prime, <br />Thirst for reveries to fill the soul that beams. <br /> <br />The world is so ancient! Our life-style so trite! <br />Days are so stale! Living habits so out-dated! <br />Even our attachment has become antiquated! <br />Darling! Courting words have grown a bite! <br /> <br />Whether you change your clothes many a turn <br />Or always make yourself up, you still look old, <br />Although fall leaves have begun to turn gold, <br />Inviting the season, suggesting Spring’s return. <br /> <br />Even if my heart in metempsychosis succeeded <br />So that I could renew my love in renovation, <br />Our affection would reach pain as destination, <br />Being moss-grown, incapable of being weeded. <br /> <br />Sped by seductions for taboos we have craved <br />As we need passions through thick and thin: <br />Above our first ancestor and the original sin, <br />- Coiled round the branch, the serpent stayed!<br /><br />Nhuan LeXuan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/forbidden-fruit-12/