Am I his keeper? By Radrook
Aug 27, 2019 14:59:30 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Aug 27, 2019 14:59:30 GMT -5
Am I his keeper?
The man stares at the smoke rising from afar with hatred in his eyes.
Above the conflagration, placid skies smile benevolently,
further fueling his anger.
The smell of sacrificial burning meat causes him to gag.
He stumbles about enraged, as his own sacrifice is blown away
by a stiff wind, scattering the fruit and vegetables
helter skelter, until they disappear from his sight.
The sunlight blinds him.
The air smells bitter.
Desperately he scans the ground.
Anything will do.
A fallen branch leaps into his searching hand as if alive,
as if anticipating his intentions.
As if placed there purposefully.
He raises it aloft above his head defiantly sneering at the sky.
Then he runs as he has never run before,
chest heaving, lungs two infernal bellows
stoked by the rebellious one himself.
He finds his brother kneeling reverently before the stone- heaped altar
surrounded by a small rainbow showering crystals of approval.
Silently and stealthily he approaches.
He is standing above him ready to strike.
Strange how the thick gnarled branch rises as if on its own
How well it fits into his hand!
He brings it down upon his brother's skull.
There is a sickening thud,
a nauseating cracking of bone
a sudden splattering and surging of blood
Then a deep accusing silence.
Frantically he digs a hole,
hides the blood-soaked weapon,
and hurries back to his fields
to plant and to gather,
to plant and to gather,
to plant and to gather.
But now it isn't the same.
Day seems darker now,
darker than it has ever seemed before.
The sun is being eclipsed by the moon
and a colder wind sweeps through his fields
In the far distance, wolves keen and ululate
as if in some bizarre celebration,
he can see their slanted red eyes gradually approaching his way.
Two nearby Hyaenas gaze at him and chuckle
as they pass and it is driving him mad.
Finally he dares to glance skyward at the growing gloom.
“Where is Abel your brother?” he hears a voice say.
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Jesus would tell us that yes, we are.
Matthew 7:12 ►
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
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