Pandora's box

Fashioned from the soil
the first woman—
adorned with beauty
and deception
laden with a gift—
Epimetheus beware
inquisitive by nature
it was all too much—
evil
illness released
only hope
our only hope—
embedded in a wall of stone
tarnished
inscribed
in a small crevice
the last hope
encapsulated
human nature
what we have left