Garden of Eve

She is full of seeds

Eve’s first garden of her own

her place of exile

Should she grow the pain?

see how its lengthening vines can strangle and overwhelm

all of those seeds

the ones called anger

called hurt

called alone

called afraid

And there are the other seeds

seeds that bear her name -

Chavah-

Life

Living

Alive

the seeds that she shared

not stole

from that beautiful tree that changed it all

made it so so hard

So she does the only thing that she can do

she plants it all

plants her heart

and waits to see what grows.