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[Good Omens] Leave the Garden

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Published: Jun 15, 2019

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Literature Text

Snake eyes, black wings
On holy ground your skin stings
You were among the first to Fall
God’s Great Plan? oh sod it all

White wings, soft smiles
You’re always there to thwart his wiles
It took a while to come around
But now the Earth is common ground

Demon, angel, not so different
Both sides had you obedient
Worried for the other’s sake
Six thousand years, a lot at stake

Hell’s mercy, Heaven’s grace
Tasteless jokes in the final days
In the end, humanity shone;
The son of man refused his throne

And as for you, sweet angel, snake?
At last it’s time for you to wake
It’s time for you to leave the garden
No more hoping for a pardon

Like the pair you first set free
You have the chance to simply be;
And together – as you knew was good –
Enjoy the once-forbidden fruit.

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So guess who got back into Good Omens after about a decade since becoming a book fan, courtesy of the mini-series coming out. Can recommend, we could even watch it in stream, it’s great. Six episodes, an hour each.

This poem doesn’t spoil much if you don’t know what it’s about

But suffice to say, I took a moment to consider the final episode’s quote ‘time to leave the garden’ and figured out a second pair that was quite certainly made for eachother can now indeed enjoy the fruit of disobedience, and both that and the original (actual fruit-related) disobedience were far from bad things. Crowley and Aziraphale, as Adam and Eve, turned their backs on constrained safety in favor of freedom, discovery and life on Earth. To the world, indeed!