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of good and evil once there grew a garden of great and mighty trees flowers of great beauty but also ugly weeds their petals never wilted the green leaves never turned winter never came there fire never burned children came to play to climb the highest boughs to pluck as many flowers as their small hands would allow some trees had lovely fruits figs to please the eye ornamental oranges the apples of a lie though they held great beauty had colors to alure they held worms and maggots and tasted of manure innocent of this the children picked this fruit and were poisoned by their evil for evil was their root in lands of yellow wheat those young folk became tares but they didn't know it and so did not despair and so they played and frolicked so this story goes and good appeared as ragweed *and evil as a ROSE* soulsurvivor (C) 5/12/2015
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 12:14 PM UTC
the garden
of good and evil once there grew a garden of great and mighty trees flowers of great beauty but also ugly weeds their petals never wilted the green leaves never turned winter never came there fire never burned children came to play to climb the highest boughs to pluck as many flowers as their small hands would allow some trees had lovely fruits figs to please the eye ornamental oranges the apples of a lie though they held great beauty had colors to alure they held worms and maggots and tasted of manure innocent of this the children picked this fruit and were poisoned by their evil for evil was their root in lands of yellow wheat those young folk became tares but they didn't know it and so did not despair and so they played and frolicked so this story goes and good appeared as ragweed *and evil as a ROSE* soulsurvivor (C) 5/12/2015
I often refer to hypocrisy in some Christian people as the fruit of the ornamental orange ---
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 12:14 PM UTC
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