Apple and a Rose

I brushed water colors with thoughts of Adam's Eve and the fallen one who was disguised to deceive this naked nymph, who strikes a nubile pose offering a ripened apple and a crimson rose Both face and body, painted innocently pure her femininity was unquestionably demure but with forbidden fruit bitten, it was all lost From Eden's paradise she and Adam were tossed. Uprooted as a tree, she forfeited divine favor The evil reptile's lie succeeded to enslave her Woe to the male offspring she was created to bear One killed by the hand of the other, his plight forswear To them, closed forever was the garden's gate The finality of death then became mankind's fate A wrong path was chosen when she'd been warned gave way to mortality that all of us have mourned