Lilith

by Ron Metzger

She was beautiful, loving and created by the same Earth as Adam. Lilith was Adam’s first wife. When she wouldn’t accept subservience from Adam, she was banished by God from the Garden.

It wasn’t easy back then to be born as an adult with no experiences from childhood. God just plops you there – full grown and naked. Lilith was the rebel, so she got kicked out and got dubbed the “bringer of disease and death”.

“Well, Adam,” God said, “we can always create another woman for you. We just have to remove one of your ribs.”

“Will that hurt?” asked Adam. He kind of liked Lilith, but she didn’t obey God well enough.

“I’ll do it as painlessly as possible – but she will become your perfect mate as long as she obeys my rules.”

When Adam awoke, Eve was sitting at his side swabbing the wound on his rib cage. They were immediately in love. Lilith was watching this fiasco from over the hill and she laughed at Adam’s naivety.

She watched as Eve glared at the forbidden apple from the tree of knowledge. Lilith watched the serpent enticing Eve to take a bite. She watched when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden. She laughed at their anguish (which she had already been through).

God thought ‘Damn bitches. You just can’t make them in your own image.’ He watched as the Garden of Eden was overcome by pollution and nuclear waste. Lilith just watched on and wondered if God had made a mis-judgement of the feminine species.