Adam and Eve Pt. II

it's true, you know, what they say
          old friends never die
they just fade away, out into the oblivion
          that is this forgotten life
as crickets chirp unaware of their dying day
that is set as sure as time
          but they play on, for we all must live in a fantasy
if we ever wanted to live free
and that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make, a chance I'm willing to take
          but I don't know about you
if it came down to it could you cut off
          the arm that disobeys, the head of the serpent?
It takes courage and an earthborn will
          but I understand if you can't do it, for we are all
nothing more than the dust from which we are born, human in every sense
          “man cannot live on bread alone”
and so we must fill our unending appetite
for this deconstruction of our beings
          with cement that crumbles the moment it hardens
and I've asked you so many times
          would you cheat to win, and if so
would victory still taste as sweet on your lips?
           sorry, but that's something that will reveal itself another way
without my help
          a shard of glass, another piece of the unsolvable puzzle
          that lays itself out so delicately
between each petal as it falls, losing the innocence
           that had so permanently become ingrained
into our memories stuck on repeat, reminding us what we have done
forever perpetuating itself into a lost eternity
          but I know what I want, and it just might not
be you this time
          in this eternal space so deep, our souls lost in emptiness
and with cries to the unknown heaven above
whose existence is but a chased dream in this life
          we shout hallelujah
          but our hearts turn away
weeping tears of the water that we were
           once so thirsty for.