EDEN.
We were two thieves in the Garden of Eden before God closed its doors but we carved our names on the apple tree before fleeing into the open wide world that would soon make us cynics and non-believers. Now thousands of years have passed, maybe millions but our souls have been recycled so much that we’ve lost count, we’ve forgotten how it feels to be unhurt.
However, no matter the lifetime, the body or the face our souls always find each other like our eyes find the light of the stars in the open night. You’ve always knocked on my door and I’ve always followed the brightest star to find you. This time it is different, our names have faded from the apple tree, and father time has forsaken us. He has taken his gift away and Gia, poor Gia she is tired and is on her last breath. In this lifetime you knew who you were, you searched for me and found me in the arms of another who swore to love me until the end of time.
You took me from him and marked your name on my body and we fled to the streets with joy and desire in our hearts. Those streets that we used to run are now all empty, the living are fleeing to the east with the promise of salvation from a messiah, but we knew that the ancient messiahs ran away from humanity a long time ago. They found their way back into the Garden of Eden through the hidden passage. The passage where you first tasted my seed and promised to be with me until the end of time.
Well, time’s end is here and the cars on the streets we used to run are all on fire.
“I wonder how you’ll remember me, as the boy from the Garden or the boy who wanted to die…” you said with the smoothest voice I’ll ever hear but there was sadness laced within that smoothness. I told you that I’ll always remember that boy from the Garden and held you as we both slept on the couch as the last sun finally set in our living room.
Wearing the very same his and his sweaters we bought together that one Christmas, where we were surrounded by our chosen family, I heard you whisper “The last leaf has fallen in Eden.”
I woke the next morning to find you gone. I searched for you thinking that you went east wanting to be saved and soothed by the false messiah. All I found in the east were people clinging on to their last hopes and prayers for life as they tried to outrun the flames of extinction.
But we were always designed to end by the flames, we can’t outrun destiny.
It felt like I was burning for eternity, but it didn’t hurt at all because the only pain I felt was dying without telling you those sweet three words that made you smile. When the burning stopped I was amongst the stars but I wasn’t a star myself I was something else…
A celestial being that could hear the angels sing and the confused whispers of new born stars. From the far distances of space, across galaxies and universes I heard the smoothest voice say “hey boy from the Garden”.
And there you were a star shining brighter than all others. So bright that a fool in love from the most distant planet in the universe could use your light to find his lover. I knew it was you because I recognized your soul, so pure and already healing from the damage caused throughout our lifetimes.
Before I could get to you, the atoms and molecules in my celestial body became cosmic and the all the other unexplainables came together and I became a galaxy.
Life swirled all around me and within me, dead rocks became planets beaming with new life forms, so strange, so new and full of wonder. I shared parts of my soul with these new beings and the other parts of my soul I shared with the stars. And with a blink of an eye… on tiny a blue planet within my galaxy far away from you my love, I watched two lovers carve their names on an apple tree in a forbidden Garden as they fled to the streets with joy and love in their hearts.
