Every Adam

Every Adam                                                                                                       
 
For a barley grain (goes the story),
Adam sold his birthright and yet
 
Meher said nothing was lost or gained
in the transaction.  No fall from grace.
 
Nothing changed but Adam’s perspective –
of God, himself and his world,
 
God being always God; truth being ever true. 
Adam being God’s irrefutable heir,
 
suddenly flushed from the starting gate
by whim and necessity to be given another
 
farther-down-the-road perspective.  
Until Adam at last, through error,
 
estrangement and limitation, through contrast
and comparison, loss, grief and impotence,
 
is fully able to grasp the import
and measure of His Godhood.
 
O child of God, every Adam lacks only
the particulars of his relationship with his Maker.