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    na, mula noong 24 Enero, 2006, ang nakitambay dito

The History of Forgetting
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Lawrence Raab

When Adam and Eve lived in the garden
they hadn't yet learned how to forget.
For them every day was the same day.
Flowers opened, then closed.
They went where the light told them to go.
They slept when it left, and did not dream.

What could they have remembered,
who had never been children? Sometimes
Adam felt a soreness in his side,
but if this was pain it didn't appear
to require a name, or suggest the idea
that anything else might be taken away.
The bright flowers unfolded,
swayed in the breeze.

It was the snake, of course, who knew
about the past—that such a place could exist.
He understood how people would yearn
for whatever they'd lost, and so to survive
they'd need to forget. Soon
the garden will be gone, the snake
thought, and in time God himself.

These were the last days—Adam and Eve
tending the luxurious plants, the snake
watching from above. He knew
what had to happen next, how persuasive
was the taste of that apple. And then
the history of forgetting would begin—
not at the moment of their leaving,
but the first time they looked back.

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posted by mdlc @ 1:25 PM  
2 Comments:
  • At 7:27 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I just want to say that I love this poem and it inspires me to read again. :)

     
  • At 7:28 PM, Blogger mdlc said…

    yeah, wasak nga ito, at wasak si raab.

     
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