Exit Eden

"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven." - Thoreau

Doors.

Blocking passageways.

Disagreeably strong, dank and dark.

Barren and barred.

Off-limits.

Forbidden.

Tempting.

Faith collides with freewill.

Failing and falling.

Takes each of us through different places.

Always ending at the same destination.

Naked.

Afraid.

Second-guessing.

Blaming.

We''ll try anything to open them.

With jaundiced justifications.

Defying truth.

Daring it in a chilling game of hide-and-seek.

Hopscotched with a jump rope like a hangman's noose.

Opposing sides in a chess match.

An all-in game of liar's poker.

The stakes are high.

Once through, there's no turning back.

Leads to a maze of endless doors.

The keeper is a Philadelphia lawyer.

There's a simple reason why they're locked.

... We're not supposed to go there ...

Author's Note

"Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven." - Thoreau