Abel or Cain II

After I John 3:11-24

We are to love

without condition,

because we are told

to love, that this is who

we are and how we will

be known, becoming

Abel to the world’s Cain,

the world that can kill

without physical death but

kill with words, demean

with actions, ridicule

in self-righteousness,

it is all a killing, a murder.

We are not to be surprised

for it is the natural way

when the hatred comes as

a wave never ending. It is

the natural order for the hatred

to come because we are

representatives of the very first love.

The hatred comes because

we offer the lamb.

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