The Serpent’s Shakespearean Soliloquy.
By Ezra Azra.
Copyright 2026.
(Iambic Pentameter.)
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The Holy Bible says “The Serpent said.”
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“Why me? Of all of Eden’s animals
Why did God let me be the first to be
An evil animal in Paradise?
Particularly ‘Why’ because was I
Not claimed to be the most intelligent
Among all living things created by
Jehovah God: great whales, and fowl, and beasts,
And every cattle, creeping thing on Earth?
Permit me here a Bible quote. Of course
Approximately accurate, me being
Mere Serpent beast created dumb by God
Jehovah’s plan for perfect Paradise:
“Among Jehovah’s beasts in Paradise
The Serpent was most subtil of them all.”
And there is not a shred of evidence
That God Jehovah gave to any beast
His very own divine ability
To speak. Indeed, in all eternity,
The first speech heard were words were spoke by God
Himself; words that were there before God was.
Permit me here a Bible quote. Of course,
Approximately accurate, me being
Mere Serpent beast created dumb by God
Jehovah’s plan for perfect Paradise:
“Beginnings were, forever are, in words
Unspoken. God Jehovah was the first
Word spoke itself into Almighty God.”
All animals in Paradise were by
Jehovah’s spoken words created to
Be speechless dumb on that sixth final day;
That very same sixth day, Jehovah God
Did make, by mixing soil with His own spit
With His own breath, what He did name a “Man.”
And with that Man, Jehovah God did share
His own divinity of spoken words
By which He did create Himself a God.
Permit me here a Bible quote. Of course,
Not accurate entirely, me being
Mere Serpent beast created dumb by God
Jehovah’s plan for perfect Paradise:
“Jehovah God did bring each beast and fowl
Unto that Man for him to give a name.
And whatsoever name that Man did call
That beast, that fowl; that was the name thereof.”
In other words, before I, Serpent, spoke
My words in Paradise from deepest of
My inner self, all words were spoken in
Eternity, were spoke by only God
And by that only Man who, like an ape,
Mere mimicked God. And then I dared intrude.
I, Serpent, dared to be the third in all
Eternity to speak; and daringly,
To speak, first, by mine own intelligence;
And, second, by mine own ability;
Each far away from, independently
Of God! My independence must have made
Jehovah God a jealous God. Of course
Expected since Himself He did declare,
Gratuitously at the time, please note,
Most threateningly, He’s a jealous God.
Permit me here a Bible quote. Of course,
Not accurate entirely, me being
Mere Serpent beast created dumb by God
Jehovah’s plan for perfect Paradise:
“I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God,
Jehovah, visiting iniquity
On fathers who do not obey; and on
Their families four generations down.”
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