Adam and Eve

[dukealien]

There is a movement to the universe and it is violent. 
The animals share the same movement,
and in their innocence, unconscious of death,

live.

We were once closer,
but Adam loved Eve
in a land where nothing ever perished and his passions were created from his own flesh and bone.

One day she heard a voice
"There is no betrayal in taking," it said.
And she consumed it as it consumed her - a vision of livestock frailty. 
Adam, in return, looked outward at his herd
its births and its carrion.

“Our seeds forever condemn us,”
said Adam, feeling the searing sun on his back as he plowed and sewed.
He looked upward and yelled, “we used to worship you!”


“Eve,” he said. 
“The barren are useless now
and the bearers are even worse. 
I am the barren
and you,
you
are…”

A very elegant, economical recasting of the story.  One obvious misspelling ("sewed" should be "sowed" - I can't see any way the needle-and-thread business fits here, even figuatively.)  No worries, though, happens to everyone and the spell checkers decline to help.

There might be a couple of places where economy could be increased slightly.  Use of "the" is always tempting when writing on big themes, and is sometimes appropriate - your last stanza (beginning "'Eve,' he said") uses it well.  Your second line might be able to do without it (starting with "[A]nimals") and so might the phrase "feeling (the) searing sun."

Use of white space around "live" is admirable.  The phrase "unconscious of death" seems slightly awkward - is there a shorter word than "unconscious" that expresses the thought?

Though I didn't see precisely where you were going at the end, I liked the poem and look forward to your doing even better.