THE BLAME SESSION

November 30 2016 , Written by Ofem Ubi & Felicia Otop Published on #poetry

THE VOICE OF ADAM

You were a subtraction of my sum

The genesis of disobedience

A formula that diluted my established equations

I was content with the authority he delivered to me like a Christmas passel

With wisdom vast enough to identify every other lesser creature by name

My nights and mornings were peacefully orchestrated by the songs of chipping birds

I was president of Eden

The masses had a fair share of their dully deserved national cakes

I could relate with them like we were made of same liquid clay

You were made from me, a descendant of my Fathers creation

I knew not the definition of shame so my private skin was left open to the full glare of my subjects

I was king until you showed up like cancer, eating up my essence to the core

Liquidating the assets of my existence

You made me grow bankrupt of ideas to run my kingdom effectively

You said you were help but you were chaos wrapped in flesh

The Jericho walls built around your ears were too strong to grant entrance my advice to your drums

I made room for you in my castle but like the serpent your eyes longed for my throne

We were warned of the fruit, foretold of its sure consequences

And while I was away mending your destructions and erecting the broken spines of your actions

Connecting the cords you tore apart and linking back bridges you broke down

You were busy feeding the worms of your belly with the forbidden

As he watched you feeding yourself to condemnation

He knew he had broken the antenna that passed clear signal from us to the Origin

And with each bite my heart felt the pain

The sound of your digestion was nothing but the GPS my unconscious feet used to track its wandering steps to your presence

And I laying sight of you lost discretion of right and wrong

Hypnotized by your fulfillment of tasting the forbidden

I too had a bite

And as the juice rested on my tongue diluting my sense of power

I lost my birthright of kingship to gluttony

I felt virtue being sent to exile from the land of my body

I grew weaker in righteous strength

My white eyes grew pale and tons of evil were imported to the nation of my bones

I fell in defeat and all my armors broke down like a demolished building

I lost my crown to him

I became friends with evil, shame, nakedness and all other vices infused through one bite

I buried my face to the ground when HE called me cos I was too broken and shameful to look HIM in the face

I lost everything all thanks to you

Now were sent out of our home, left to wander like the very serpent that plotted this downfall of ours

Watching the Origin take our place

Seeing him pay our debts on the cursed grounds of Golgotha

We’ve learnt our lessons and I pray our children fall no prey to this cursed creature again

Ofem Ubi

THE VOICE OF EVE

You were the first of his creation
I was just an addition to what He made
To help you fulfill your purpose
It was all about you, no me, all you
I came as a help to make you complete
But you felt all had been given to you
So you treated me like the others He made
You neither interacted nor communicated with me
I needed companionship and he came to me
He told me many things you didn't tell me
He told me lies to get to you, so he could make me his own
He knew if he owns me he owns you

Even though you didn't see the value in me

Because you owned me, you owned the world
As a helper made for you and from you, I had no thought of my own
I was thinking through you and in you
I did exactly what you dream of doing
You longed in your heart to eat it but you were afraid
I was your beating heart going in every direction you tuned to
I was your thinking mind that made all you desired real
I acted accordingly, as you were in control of me
But here you are blaming me for doing what you longed to do even before I was made
You wanted to rule, to take charge and command as the Origin did
I helped you in my ignorance; I help you as I loved you like me
I helped you because I came out of you
To fulfill your heart desires
Your heart was my thought
Your heart was my dream
Your heart was my belief because I came out of you
I heard the voice of your heart thinking through me, speaking through me and acting through me because we were one
You wanted me to be his friend so you will get the secret manual of the Origin from him

I didn't know you named him evil so I made him my friend
You let me befriend him so you will gain more through him since you know he was created before you
To make your creation pure

He was the dumping ground of all not needed
For your being to have all that is needed
But you needed more, more than what the Origin gave to you
Now you blame me when I am you and acted like you as I thought in you and walked in you

I had no thought, I had no being
My thought and being was you
As we ate it I was separated from you
As you blamed me you made me own myself
Making me be me and you be you.
I should have made the Origin my best companion.
But the Origin gave me to you.
I move on as the Origin has done what you would have done.
To take the blame.
The Origin has taken my blame as He gave up himself for me.
He did this on a cursed tree.
I move on to build a mind of my own.
I am gone to the Origin, so He will remold me to be me, to be myself and I.
He is my Potter and I am his clay.
I am no longer you.
Bye my eternal partner.
You can only meet and see me through the Origin.
Whatever you want me to do, if the Origin doesn't approve I won't do it.
And as I surrender myself to the Origin who made you.
I have automatically put you under his authority.
Because whosoever owns me owns you.
I am your heart and thought is the reason you would have kept me with all diligence.
Because out of me are all the issues of life.