Adam

Adam (Genesis 4:8)

He'd seen this thing before, of course, but never like this.
After Eden, he'd found a swan lying motionless and silent,
forever rotting, irretrievable, and gone.
But now, it's his boy, the brother of Cain, the shepherd son,
the kind and faithful friend of He-Who-Is,
lying quiet and slain: finished, futureless, at the end of his end.
Once, Adam had named the names, and named his own two sons,
and named this curse, which mullifies and terminates, as: "death."
But he who'd known the awesome power of God looked to the skies,
knowing, without a doubt, through nothing was said,
his God both could and would undo the dead.


--William Baer


Copyright (c) 2012, Israel Galindo