Cain (Ii)(Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

His dad Adam, told him to put God first,
about the lamb that would come and carry the sin of the world
but great jealously was in his heart
when Abel brought a lamb as a offering and asked God for His mercy
where in rebellion he brought his own best fruit to God:
grapes full of juice, peaches swollen out and sheaves of grain
as the work of months for recognition in a hidden kind of yearning
when the blood of Abel's lamb did drip over the altar and were set aflame
and his offering did not even want to smoulder as if God turned away from him,
a terrible rage and great hatred did suddenly rise in him
while he did hit Abel that his eyes did pop out and thought that he would disfigure him,
with Abel's blood on his hands he was totally astonished
where he looked at a bloody altar and saw Abel's shepherd-staff
where he did hit Abel to death and knew that he did deserve God's punishment.

© Gert Strydom