Envy And The Sloths

When Adam felt the shame of being nude,

And Eve, as serpent sits betwixt a twig,

Did either child of God savor the fruit,

Or instantly adorn the leaf of fig?

Who first had gazed upon the other bare?

Who…

Beloved feline, midnight's cat,

With eyes of youth and body auld,

I pray thy fur of white and black,

May usher thee beyond the cold.

I ask of thee whatever ails?

You answer me, with fragile breath,

That though thou…

Ablaze in thy solace, thy hand in my hair

For thou'rt so fragile, so fragile and fair.

Abandon thy fear of compassion for there's

Still an ounce of belief left in me.

My dearest, my labours lie tangled in verse,

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