"Painful Slavery"
Ah Satan, are you but a notion
Of the mind?
Can the terrible enemy of man
Be but a childish attempt
To avoid responsibility?
When mother ate the fruit
Was not her cry,
"The serpent tempted me."
The true falling away?
To deny her own dark desires
And blame them on a source
Outside herself,
Was not this the real evil?
And father,
What of him?
His words,
"She offered it to me, so I ate."
His own words condemn him.
He gave away the glory, the Eden
Of free will,
For the painful slavery
Of excuses.