I.
Be still, Eve, and listen, 'ere thou slanderest God.
Your grievances and sorrows He knows well,
He looks upon thee with a perfect Love.
While thou art slandered, too, by tongues of men,
Those yet to come and those you tend to now,
Rest knowing what is said is said blindly,
Words cast into the air and nothing more.
Thou knowest men do not reflect thy God.
Fly not from Him;
Listen to me, and hear.

In the land of Eden, Paradise on Earth,
The founding place of man and woman alike,
I watched with others as you lived and played.
Tranquility and peace filled every hour,
Adam and Eve alike felt this was so.
You lived partaking of the fruit of God,
With naught but one command: Beware one Tree.
The Tree of Knowledge, Tree of Good and Evil.
This one Tree thou wert to leave be.
For aeons, it seemed, you went on living.
You've said yourself, "day after day,
[You] walked beneath [His] smile."
This beauty never could grow cold;
This Love could never come unfurled.
In Eden all was nurtured perfectly,
With no effort on the part of man.
We saw the joy, the peace, the glory
In which the Garden was kept.
We watched as tree, and sun, and flower
Was made for thee alone, and for thy pleasure.
Too, though, began we to sense something amiss;
For Eve was pondering more the Tree of Knowledge
Than e'er she had before.
This one Tree, one thing denied to thee,
Thou wanted more than eternal bliss.
We watched, the angels, with growing concern.
One day, as thou wast gazing at the tree,
Indecision and desire etched into thy face,
A Serpent came into thy view, spoke to thee.
This, the sign that thou hadst waited for,
This which proved to thee thy path was just
By speaking to thee the words of thy heart,
Compelled thee at last to partake.
You thought you knew disobedience was life.
I, we all, the heavenly host, watched with despair,
With disapproving eyes as Adam partook,
Under the guidance of Eve. 
We watched, too, with utmost approval,
As both were cast to the earth.
I watched the struggles on the earth,
I wondered,
Why would you disobey?

Disobedience is the utmost sin.
Commands are given not to be broken, but kept.
These things are spoken that they might protect.
Having known thee before thy time in Eden,
Having seen thy spirit and spoken with thee about such things,
I did not understand how you could disobey,
With only one rule to follow, how could you think to stray?
I was troubled, for, despite the disobedience,
Adam and Eve thrived in the hostility.
You were alive, in this lesser place.
You, in especial, daughter of a King,
Never yearned for the comforts of Eden.
You felt your decision correct,
You were sound in your choice.
No qualm entered your dreams,
Despite your sin.
Yet I knew that to obey is just,
To obey is right,
While breaking the law is sin,
Blackness, of Hell.
You had broken what was pure--
So how, again, could you be sound?
How this rebellion,
How this perfection of purpose?
Souls descended to the Earth, and all was well.
Had you not condemned yourself to death and pain?
Had you not permitted these souls to come to hostility?
Yet, again, all was well.
My black and white, my right or wrong,
'Twas somehow lacking in the face of this triumph.

I was missing something you had seen,
Some nuanced, strong, and invisible idea.
I could not believe that the rule had changed,
That the rule was now to break where you felt you could.
So I watched and waited,
And then, Eve, you spoke.

II.
You spoke with passion, and I began to think.
You spoke with commitment, and I began to believe.
Amid your anger, strife, and pain
Was something powerful.
It was your words that caused me to begin to see,
Your fervent plea that God see as you did,
Your use of all that you had done to show us all the good.
"My sister, I am sorry for what's been done,"
Rang on my lips for thee.
But not sorry for the sin I had perceived the taste to be;
I was sorry for the treatments of men to thee.
You had spoken in a way to pierce my heart,
And this was how you made yourself heard.

From you, I learned that Love,
Abstract though 'twas and is,
Was the motivation,
And that, basing the results of that fateful taste
On the rewards reaped for he who the bite was taken for,
You had done right by thyself.
Knowing this,
Thou had done right by me.

Eve, though, to address the anger towards thy God --
I hope to apply what thou hast taught me from the Earth.
You were correct in asking, asserting,
That God was proud of the world's rise.
He did feel its heart beat, He did love the Earth and those upon't
As children,
Forever beloved.
You were right, too, in stating that you facilitated the rise,
You were the linchpin.
My sweet sister, God knew this, and knows it still.
He meant the Earth to rise, as I think you know.
The love He felt for the land, for Adam, for thee,
Meant that He desired more than anything else its being shepherded.
He needed Adam and thee to be freed from Eden to complete the beauty of the Earth,
And you were a tool in His hands for this purpose.
He knew that your choice would free the land,
He knew that you would bring knowledge to man and woman alike.
He knew, He knows,  He loves.

Be still, Eve, and listen,
For we see; He sees,
And judges thee not
For doing His will.