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Red

It was the red apple that showed All the way down to life, Bare, beautiful, bitter and sweet To every bit of bite, denied by Him! Her heir couldn't hide its lustre That was hidden to him first, Later exposed Till she bore the fruit inside The fruit of love,lust and humiliation How did it come to happen That all the various colors got Combined to a white and black, but no red? Though the story was thus written In sweet blood of forbidden fears She was abandoned to a human heaven, the apple

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