Ebb and Eve

Ebb and Eve

 

Eve had retreated from the flow of her emotions

Into a sanctuary

In Serendipity.

Where elephants roamed free.

 

This was the moment she met Ebb

Ebb: straight out of her mission

Withdrawing the turquoise sea

From the baked shore.

 

They greeted each other lightly

and sat opposite of each other

across the chess board.

 

Though there was nothing light

Of Eve's disposition

A widow now

Her Adam long gone.

 

So she wore a heavy brown robe

Her thickened waist belted with a woven rod.

As was the custom

In the time of Adam and Eve.

 

"My world is raked."

Mighty Eve said.

 

 

Ebb considered Eve's words

Like a master chess player that she was

Or mistress of satranj!

As she was known in the Serendipity.

" And you and you alone invented

Motherhood: matriarchy,

yes no?"

 

 

"Yes." Replied Eve

Inventions alone won't bring

My lover back

My only possibility of mating

, being touched

In mine quin whiskers.

Venus's honeypot

is sweet no more

but soar.

Without my Adam.

 

Honeys and bees were not for Ebb

So she was confused.

 

"Check and Mate!"

Said Eve.

Ebb stood defeated

For the first time in

Her life.

Crowned was Eve

As the mistress of chess

Or master of satranj.

A wide smile appeared on

Eve's face,

The first one since the departure of her Adam.

Serendipitous was Eve.

 

YASEMIN BALANDI