Sojourning in Paradise

Sojourning in Paradise,
clearly neglecting
to find the middle ground,
they turned into dark angels
of passion and decadent pleasures
of the flesh,
swelling with pride and the arrogance of
all the varieties of pleasure;

in an instant, became Fallen,
cursed,
crawling, heels swollen and punctured,
poisoned by serpent bites,
those who God ordained
here on
to be the hosts
of erotic dishes
now dead, now cold.
Translation: Stephen Gee