God Made The Serpent We Are Told

God Made The Serpent We Are Told

God made the serpent we are told

In contradiction of the way

That the Creation should unfold

If the Creator had His say;

For everything seems orderly

And nobody to contradict

The great Creator, God, as He

Issued edict after edict;

When out of nowhere as it were

We’ve a heroine to contend

With a villain as he seduced her

To win over them in the end!

In God’s despite a serpent would

Do deeds so incredibly vile

That he’d mixed evil up with good,

Put his Creator upon trial!

These two accounts of Genesis—

To make an ordered universe

Changed to the opposite of this,

A blessing turning to a curse!—

And yet that was the way it went.

I wonder then to what avail?

Unless it for the best was meant:

Of telling an intriguing tale.

For just imagine that should Eve

Not’ve been tempted by a fruit,

And that no serpent would deceive

Adam, who was far too astute;

There wouldn’t have been any sin

And consequently no fall;

Nor narrative should then begin—

Nor story to be told at all.