----------------[Barbara Bush, Please Accept My Love Offering (At The Altar Of Your Heart)
Barbara, loving you is like
tilling the ground and harvesting fruit
it is like two parents conflicted
unraveling interiorly yet pressing onward despite
consolations to their own bodies that death
wont be as traumatic as it figures in their dreams
because though it is the fruit borne of countless hours of sweat
and toil, it never seems good enough
(for you)
Other men (of wealth and prestige) offer you
the firstlings of their flock....and the fat thereof
[though tending sheep is less intensive than growing produce]
[and money breeds arrogance and pretensions]
and it is charming in your sight
savory, full of sweet aroma
and your heart sinks
so you forget about me
and my manifest insecurities about us falling in love
and being together forever
And without you I am wroth
and my countenance has fallen
the sin of bitter tears and fearful destiny
(being alone)
coucheth at the door of my heart
and it feels like vengeance rising from one disenfranchised
fighting flesh and phantoms, inherited curses just to be heard
refuting serpents of doubt and forfeiture...damning me
I want to rise up and slay these doleful misconceptions
to prove to you my love is real
(that I don't have to be in politics to be your man)
let other men's lament of rejection cry out from the ground to you
not mine
(not anymore)
BARBARA BUSH YOU ARE SO FINE! I GOT MAD PROPS FOR W...DO YOU GOT MAD PROPS FOR ME? IF I RAN A CAMPAIGN FOR YOUR HEART...WOULD I GET YOUR VOTE? (SNOOKUMS????)
St. Augustine "Augustine: on the Two Cities"
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Of these two first parents of the human race, then, Cain was the first-born, and he belonged to the city of men; after him was born Abel, who belonged to the city of God. For as in the individual the truth of the apostle's statement is discerned, "that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual,"whence it comes to pass that each man, being derived from a condemned stock, is first of all born of Adam evil and carnal, and becomes good and spiritual only afterwards, when he is grafted into Christ by regeneration: so was it in the human race as a whole. When these two cities began to run their course by a series of deaths and births, the citizen of this world was the first-born, and after him the stranger in this world, the citizen of the city of God, predestinated by grace, elected by grace, by grace a stranger below, and by grace a citizen above. By grace,--for so far as regards himself he is sprung from the same mass, all of which is condemned in its origin: but God,
like a potter (for this comparison is introduced by the apostle judiciously, and not without thought), of the same lump made one vessel to honor, another to dishonor.
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Genesis 4:1-10
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And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah. And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be its desire, but do thou rule over it. And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
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