They say I was the first mistake—
a hand reaching where light had barely cooled.
But the garden was already listening
for the sound of a question.
Morning leaned through the fig leaves
like a secret learning breath.
The earth smelled of rain and warm skin,
and the river curved
as if it knew a body would one day follow it.
I was not lonely.
Loneliness had not yet been invented.
But silence had weight,
and the fruit shone
like a thought refusing sleep.
He slept beside me—
Adam, gentle as uncarved wood—
dreaming the calm dream
of someone who had never chosen.
Yet something in my ribs remembered fire,
a quiet ember
where the maker’s breath had rested.
Curiosity is only the soul
testing its own wings.
So I touched the red skin of the world.
Not hunger—
no, it was recognition.
The first bite
was a door opening inward.
Light shattered into knowledge,
and suddenly the wind had names:
desire, exile, mercy, time.
They say I doomed us.
But listen—
even now the orchards bloom from that moment.
Every poem begins in that mouthful.
Every lover who reaches across the dark
is answering my courage.
I was the first to step beyond obedience,
the first to feel the horizon pull.
If there is blame,
let it be this:
I loved the world
before it knew
how dangerous love could be.