In God’s garden all was good
Everything got along like it should;
Cockroaches were lovely as were rats
Dogs were not domesticated, nor were cats
God’s garden had no owners owning pets.
There was no skin color, no such thing as races.
All had one face, the face of the faceless.
The only sound was that of silence.
No alarms were needed. There was no violence.
But in this place there was one cage;
It hung from a chain in God’s window
From the place we call "the pain".
And in this cage a one-of-a-kind creature lived,
One whose brain God accidentally overdid
His name was “A Damn!” because “Damn!” is what God said when he used mortal rather than moral thoughts when stuffing this creatures head. And as God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden all fresh and new, Adam was the first Creature to ever ask God –
“Who are you?”
Adam riddled every bit of Eden with “How, what, why” and “who?” So God did what any loving God would do; He took one of Adam’s ribs and fashioned from it a flute, hoping Adam would find harmony with the birds but his toot proved too brute. So God broke that instrument and made Adam a third and fourth leg “Run with the Bison the deer and the caribou!” the loving God said. But Adam found exercise useless and these crutches he abused, by sharpening them into spears to kill and to wound.
God saw there would be no peace in his garden til that damn Adam was put away so he broke those two crutches into four bars and fashioned the world’s first cage.
Thus man was the first animal God was forced to domesticate.
And Adam spent his days caged in awe, watching how God could create… a planet from a speck of dust… a rainbow from the color of rust and Adam could not decide if he was cursed or blessed to be God’s sole witness, nonetheless, he could not tear his attention away and he watched breathless as God shaped each and every star into a heavenly shape… and he grew envious, for he too longed to create but sound was his only tool, words were all he could make… so he created definitions and reasons for each piece of this puzzle God felt compelled to in-state.
But Adam soon grew weary, for his efforts seemed in vain. He wondered if even God could make a book big enough for all the words it would take to describe this puzzle once all the pieces finally fit together
If they did fit together
If they could fit together
And still be in his view, for this pile of God’s creations grew and grew and grew. Not just far and wide but rather tall, too. Inevitably, God disappeared behind that mountain of puzzle pieces as Adam realized he would never see this puzzle solved. Adam was left staring in amazement at God’s great puzzle, which he accurately defined as the world’s first wall.
(excerpt from HOLY WATER, written by Derrick Little, Copyright 2007)