Paradise Lost?

Big adjustment.  Nothing like retirement.

One minute, I’m your average day to day man -

up at first light, a couple of grapes, then

on with the day job:  Emu; Elephant;

Duck Billed Platypus; Lesser Spotted Toad…

biodiversity makes a demand

on imagination.  But when I tired,

I thought of her under the tree: first bride,

always smiling, beautiful.  Worth a rib;

worth a leg; worth an eye.  Worth Paradise?

Well, debateable; but I’ll tell you this -

I passed it down to all the human tribe -

when the woman you love says sink your teeth

into sweet flesh, what price eternal life?