Genesis Four: Cain and Abel

A perspective from Cain from the passage of Genesis 4.

From my youth I was told about God

How He made the world perfectly, nothing odd.

Adam told us how he failed.

I mocked; Abel paled.

I was the keeper of the crops

Abel, a keeper of flocks

But it was required of us that day:

To sacrifice unto God and pray.

No lambs did I have

To buy one from Abel made me mad.

My best did I gave

But when God talked to me, I was ashamed.

He said sin was lurking at the door

But I didn't know murder was in store!

This rebuke I couldn't hear

I was just hoping Abel was near.

To the field I asked he would help

But when my club struck him, he yelped.

I tried to hide him the best I could.

Shat I did, I didn't understood.

God soon talked to me

My brother He wanted to see.

"I'm not my brother's keeper," was my reply

But I only heard a big sigh.

The earth's curse applied only to me

No tree would grow and no plants would be green.

"This punishment is too great," I had said,

"People won't wait till I am dead."

So God placed a mark upon my head

I was blushing; my face was red.

So I had to run from Adam and Eve

A wanderer for the rest of my life, I shall be.

Reviews

[Ice QueenJen]

What a wonderful description of what happened when Cain killed his brother. Great poem.