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.
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