I'll go to the dollar store,
Buy a picture frame
For all the world to see
The loving side of me.
I cannot plant that cross.
I will not lay that curse.
But I'll carry it to hell and back
With it bare of any nails.
I cannot look up with open tears.
I will not stand at its foot.
But I'll comfort Mary best I can
When home she comes again.
I'll go to the years begging pardon
For things we've never done.
I'd have deflected the spear
From Heaven, but, once
I lived in the Garden.
elysabeth faslund
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/picture-frame-around-the-garden-of-eden/
