Adem and Eve

A stripped-down creation poem in which intimacy is imagined as origin, kinship, and mutual making.

Its directness gives it the feel of a private creed or vow.

A seven-line creation lyric, titled 'Adem and Eve', that retells origin as mutual derivation: 'When the Earth was so real / That everything was unusual / There was no choice // but for me to love you / For you were from me / And I was from you'. Love is presented not as decision but as the inevitable consequence of two beings made from each other.

The renamed 'Adem' is the small but deliberate hinge - the myth is re-spelled, and with it the familiar story is loosened from scripture and made the speaker's own. The poem's logic inverts Genesis hierarchy: rather than Eve drawn solely from Adam, the reciprocal lines 'you were from me / And I was from you' make origin symmetrical, so love becomes ontological rather than chosen ('There was no choice'). The paradox in 'so real / That everything was unusual' is its quiet engine - reality pushed to a pitch where the ordinary turns strange, the condition under which such necessary love can appear. The extreme brevity and the open spacing between couplets give it the feel of an inscription, a few essential lines that resist any ornament. Keep the title spelling 'Adem' verbatim.