Sunday, February 6, 2011

Cain Dis-Abeled

What is the carrot; what is the pact?
Murder me and visitation stays in tact?

Her enemy has been named
In tangled darkness you must follow

Do as she says and all will be returned
No longer biweekly, broke and hollow

Named first as the thief
Then the marker cruel

Your duplicitous snipe
Showed me for a fool

Sulking separate from your shadow
You pick at my dead discarded skin

Friend ghosts of my past
Then air twisted broadcasts of my sin

I thought you would ask
Or care enough to accuse

But your fealty was for not
Your brotherly love a grave ruse

Although your slanderous sword
Loped me rootless from the tree

Discovering the gnarled and rotting perspective
Made me wiser, stronger and free



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