One Poem by Derrick Harrison Hurd

For the Snake with the Shining Scales
for Bill

You inspire me, my angel, to care about life
You have brought humanity
to things outside of human consciousness

…and you have displayed nakedly
an awesome respect
for the people you give yourself to

Perhaps thinking the gift to be easily given
Of no real consequence
And yet never really given away at all

Truth is, though, some pass on the apple
those who knew instinctively
that the knowledge of the difference
between good and evil
was not to be found in a tree

That the gift of any knowledge,
in fact, is one of those things
Only angels can inspire
well outside of the consciousness
of most humans

…and wildly beyond the price a mortal could pay
or barter
for possession…however temporary
of perfection

Regards, from Eden

{Poem by Derrick Harrison Hurd}