"hevel" poems
Two objects lying in a field; a plowshare and a sword.
“Which of these gifts will they select?” pondered Mazda the Lord.
Two brothers, sons of Adam both, were passing by that way.
They spied the glittering artifacts that waited in the clay.
Hevel saw the plowshare would be great for planting seed in sod.
Qayin, the sword blade in his hand, looked at his brother odd.
Hevel was a Sheppard who minded Rams and Ewes.
Qayin grew crops and farmed the land, the only life he knew.
For Hevel to possess that gift did not sit well with Qayin
In a jealous rage he used the sword and thus Hevel was slain.
Qayin could not face his mother’s eyes, with shame he bore his sin.
Of his free will he’d swung the blade that did his brother in.
Qayin buried Hevel in that field to keep wild dogs away.
Then with both glittering gifts in hand, Qayin wandered far away.
In time Man would perfect the objects first found in that field.
The weapon would proliferate, evolve from Bronze to steel.
The tears of Mother Eve still flow throughout recorded time
because we are the sons of Qayin and profit from his crime.
Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 8:05 AM UTC
It began with Man’s first descendants
When humanity set
Precedent for evil--
Cain killed Hevel.
But it was before even that
That God set precedent
For punishment, when
He expelled their parents from the Garden.
And so, The Killer
Was made
To wander the world
Forever,
(And he unleashed
The Beasts,
The petty jealousies,
The destructive seeds)
And a portion
Of mankind
Still
Does.
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 at 9:58 AM UTC