Adam weeping

 

How long did Adam weep

when he fully understood the totality of good and evil?

When he saw the fullness of it, i mean?

Tiny bullets, great wars.

Monstrous lies, subtle betrayals.

When he understood death in all its fullness

The grief and devastation of the dying

The grief and devastation of the bereaved.

Tiny cancer cells and the fear of them

Mass hidden graves

Broken hearts

He cried for himself, of course.

But for his children, grandchildren, great-greats

All the sorrows of his descendants before his eyes?

No doubt God comforted his regret eagerly

But regret is not so easily tamed.

All those pre diluvian years

With each new murder, calamity, woe

Weren't his tears renewed?

How could they not be?

How could the parent of all mankind ever grow numb?