Eden's Disaster

If I pretend, for just a few minutes, Everything happened like it says in Genesis I will tell myself God was not always good He could, in fact, be sometimes malicious. A paradisiacal garden our good God plants With a stupendously enticing but forbidden tree Laden with fruit his children were not to eat Lest they die, they were told, as we soon see But Adam and Eve knew nothing of death Neither thought of dying's finality, So, they ate the luscious mouth-watering fig And death became the fate of humanity. Does this seem the right thing for God to do? To tempt his naïve, unassuming creature Leaving us humans in death's firm grasp Forever and ever … far into the future?