Love (not) Sonnet

Love evolved for mutual survival –
Adam didn’t know Eve, much less love her,
but there they were, alone, in the garden,
fighting every day all those crawling things
that sought their space inside the boundary.
Luckily Adam and Eve spoke the same
language. And then, when the babies arrived,
They had no choice but to fall in love.

Neither loved God either, but they feared him/
his warning not to venture past the mark –
they needed his protection. Love was still
not in the garden vocabulary.
Over time, affections grew, but again,
survival was Love's truest motivation.