The first divergent thinker, Lilith was
the older sister to our mother Eve,
the spinster aunt exiled from us, because
she wouldn’t necessarily believe.
The second woman disobedience
and from it time and death bequeathed to us,
but Lilith willed us weird intelligence:
ideas not sold but sometimes leased to us.

Aunt Lilith doesn’t wear the feathered wings
or demon claws by which she is portrayed.
She drinks no blood nor haunts the night nor clings
to sleeping people. She’s example made
for me and by me modeled, thought and deed:
to question every theory, rule, and need.