The Scar That Says Forsaken

"Where is Abel your brother?"....."What have you done?"


-------------/The Scar That Says Forsaken: The Thoughts of Cain Running

There is a mark, a scar
that speaks a thousand words
of frustration, bitterness, and things deplorable
of a former life passed
with some fonder memories yet darker issues unresolved and/or
glossed over
carried like the chains of a slave always with you
full of backlash
and riveting reminders
that the high hopes and expectations you were given
as a tender child – only beloved in the sight of all creation
will remain unfulfilled
will remain a source of tears for your mother
and seminal to the hatred of the world philosophy
peddled by disenfranchised souls damned
to flee as fugitives and to be mendicant vagabonds
in lieu of harvesting fresh fruits, delectable
an emissary of communion and festival garnishments
at dinner
flanked by love, family, hearth, peace, comfort, joy, un-distressed rest
until a death beckoned by the call of the fires of Hell.
And you walk softly
careful that no one hears the sound of your feet snapping twigs
or creasing leaves
as you flee the apparitions that blame you
for rising up and shedding innocent blood....
and now the moon is always veiled to you
the sun is always turned sideways
clouds obstructing its eyes from your attempt to elicit
empathy
this fate is too onerous to bear, exasperating
the evil that pursues refuses to give
you a reprieve
and you swear to curse anyone who
presumes to think they can fix this:
sevenfold


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[Genesis 4:1-15]
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, "I have acquired a man from the LORD." Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. So the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?” And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground. So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth." And Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear! Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me." And the LORD said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him