Week 3 Storytelling: How We Became to Be

If you're curious, sit down and have a look see,

How the world was created and how humans came to be.

It was created in all but seven days,

When everything before was just earth and clays.

Day one was the day he created Heaven and Earth, 

And thus he continued with great mirth.

Day two was the day he created the skies,

A sky so blue, it could bring tears to your eyes

Day three was the day he created dry land, 

Which is why my dear, you can frolic in the sand.

Day four was the day the stars came to be, 

What blessings they are, wouldn't you agree?

Day five was the day he created creatures of the sea, 

But it's already the fifth day, where were we?

Day six was the day he created creatures of land,

Along with them, he also created something much more grand...

With a wave of a hand, he created man,

Yes, that's right, from mere dust and sand.

From head to toe, man was great,

And that is a fact that no one can negate.

He named man Adam,

And to accompany him, he created a madam.

Her name was Eve,

With a kind of beauty more than any mortal can achieve.

He placed them in a garden,

A place he called Eden.

In that garden, life was thriving as far as the eye could see,

Adam and Eve could feast on anything but one particular tree.

For it was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, 

And its mere fruit could cause great upheaval.

So God said, "you must not eat from this tree,

If you do, punished ye shall be."

But in the garden there was a snake, 

Who would make Adam and Eve's whole world shake.

The snake told Eve that she was flawed, 

And if she ate the fruit, she could be like God.

And poor little Eve, to the snake's words she hearkened

So she and Adam ate the fruit and their pure hearts to become darkened.

God realized that they had eaten and gained knowledge, 

Thus his faith in the two became abolished.

He cried, "what have you done,

Now I must punish you, my son."

So God sent Adam and Eve to where they shouldn't have been,

For they could not ever wash away their sin.

They had lost their chance to live in paradise, 

Because they failed to heed his advice.

Away God sent his beloved creations, 

As a display of his condemnation.

In addition to their departure, 

He made their punishment even darker.

For he said, "Adam, for your food you must toil,

Because in Eden everything was but a spoil."

And to Eve, he said, "For all the children you sustain, 

You must endure through much pain."

Adam and Eve wept many tears, 

For the many burdens the two and their seed would endure through all the years.

Drawing of Adam and Eve.

"adam and eve" by Tokashi-Kimiko, 2008. Source: DeviantArt.

Author's Note: For this week, I am retelling the story of the fall of Adam and Eve. In the original story, Adam was created from dust and Eve was created from a bone from Adam’s ribcage. Adam and Eve were married and they both lived in the Garden of Eden, where they were able to eat and live happily. They had complete control over the Earth. They had the opportunity to eat from any tree within the Garden of Eden, with the exception of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. One day, a snake convince Eve to eat the fruit from the that very tree that God had forbidden them to eat from, which caused them to gain knowledge. God found out that they had eaten from that tree and gave them punishments. Because of Adam, he made man work for a living and gave him death, and because of Eve, he gave females the pain of childbirth.

I made no changes to the original plot. I just took out some small details and focused on the main events of that part of the story. I chose this image because I felt like it illustrated Adam and Eve very well. They are both connected from the same like, like how Eve was made from a part of Adam and she is his wife, connecting her to him. My main goal was just to make this story simpler and easier to understand using poetry since I had a hard time reading this because of the language.

Bibliography:
"Adam and Eve" by Louis Ginzberg. Website: UN-Textbook.