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A Prisoner in Disguise
The "fall of mankind"
Is erectile dysfunction
That is "in disguise!"
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Small All White in the Forest)
"I am no barrier to its sun; the light and I are as one!"
My Poetic Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I feel that erectile dysfunction is a "self-esteem" issue, since the male erection of the Homo sapien species is—literally—based upon self attraction.
And, therefore, "The Fall of Mankind" in The Holy Bible is really a parable for a male ("Adam") not feeling attracted enough to himself in order to keep his spouse ("Eve") from leaving him, since he couldn't keep her sexually satisfied!
Thus, "Eve" was really tempted away from "Adam" by another male, whose torso, or trunk ("The Tree"), was displaying an erect penis (or, "A Snake in The Tree"). And this male ("The Devil"), who tempted Eve away from Adam, was really offering Eve his genetic seed by way of his testicles ("His Apples").
So, "The Knowledge Of Good And Evil" is really finding out that another male ("That Little Devil!") can tempt your spouse away from you and that's why "The Knowledge Is Forbidden!"
For, married males do not want to find out that they can lose their spouse to another male, because it feels like they are in "a prison" of no longer being able to have sexual intercourse with their spouse—and that is why they fear that they can become "A Prisoner in Disguise."
And this poem was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
This "Small All White in the Forest" Post No. 091 was edited on May 3rd, 2024.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
My poems that are Haiku in their style—within which one stanza is composed of three lines, where each line has words containing five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables, respectively—are a lot more like Senryū poems in that the topic of these poems is typically about people, rather than the topic of these poems being about nature, as is usually the case in classic Haiku poems. And that is why I call these types of poems "Haiku-style." –Paul Whiting [September 19th, 2023]
