Golden Delicious

at the centre of it all an apple
bitten , once tasted never forgotten.
the journey travelled in endless circles
testing the fruit and tasting the bitter sweetness.

unravel the golden yellow peel
to reveal decades of enticing ideas
each a moist melting morsel
in the sea of a rising tide

The apple once bitten destroys the whole
temptation to decide the taster
in the name of science its pip is planted
the tree spring forth the forbidden fruit

And each child anew bites the guilded orb
only to drown in the poison of its knowledge
least we deceive ourselves forbidden is not to eat
passing idea from infant to man
spurned in the candle of a moth to a flame
We bite the apple again and again