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When I was just a girl I read the Children's Bible
and in it in old Russian script it was written what Heaven was like.
I knew, as children do, that Heaven was a place on Earth.
I searched, as children do, for where it was so I could go there for a visit. On a map.
Tigris and Euphrates stretched like snakes
undulating on both sides of Heaven
My country was framed by rivers too and called 'The mouth of Heaven'.
I then found out that it was Eve who bit the apple from the tree of knowledge
and somehow I knew it was a joyful occasion. How exciting, I thought as a girl
to know what good and evil were so you could choose
choose
explore, play, and see what it's like to be on both sides of good and evil
it did not surprise me that Adam followed.
After all, boys followed me wherever I went
so we could play and explore into and under
and over the tree of knowledge.
What I then found out they took it seriously, so seriously
this game of seeking
work the earth hard, bear children in pain
when heaven is just a
mile away
guided by angels no doubt, who check if you've had enough
of satisfaction of curiosity
to see what it's like to play on both
sides of good and evil.
what I knew then I still know now
that Heaven is Earth
Where we as children play our games out
till we're done.
I'm done.
I'm Home.
I never left.