Love evolved for mutual survival –
Adam didn’t know Eve, much less love,
but there they were, in the garden,
fighting all those crawling things
that sought their space inside the boundary.
Luckily they spoke the same language.
And then, when the babies came,
They had no choice but to fall in love.
Neither loved God either, but they feared
his warning not to vent…
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