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# Crime and Punishment
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/crime-and-punishment/
- Published: 2024-03-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Does everyone deserve to be forgiven? However unoriginal our sins and justified our passion to get even? Assigned a role when jealousy begins, or at the least when it is first recorded, a brother's keeper failing at t...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Does everyone deserve to be forgiven?  
However unoriginal our sins  
and justified our passion to get even?  
Assigned a role when jealousy begins,  
or at the least when it is first recorded,  
a brother's keeper failing at the task --  
the rest of the affair is rather sordid --  
when questioned, unrepentant, he would ask  
the Lord himself if caring was his duty.  
Still walks the Earth, eats breakfast, lunch and dinner,  
appreciates the world in all its beauty --  
no question who turned out to be the winner.  
This parable attempts, but is unable  
to mend the pain of Cain, the wrath of Abel.