A symmetry

After Romans 5:12-21

There’s a kind

of symmetry

to it all, that sin

was transmitted

through one man,

one act bringing

condemnation

and death,

and

redemption was

achieved through

one man,

one act,

bringing

justification and

life.

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Genetic inheritance

After Romans 5:12-21

Genetics are, or can be,

destiny, giving us height

and hair color, eye color,

skin color, ear size,

foot size, and, often,

health or aspects of it.

Strings of DNA twist

down generations, twist

down time, certain

combinations never

letting go, never

disappearing, tagging

along generation after

generation, replicating

and never weakening,

never disappearing, more

than a parasite, part of 

the genetic core.

Genetics is destiny, 

the guilt of birth broken

only by the gene-changer

nailed to a tree.

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The stain

After Romans 5:12-21

The stain flowed

through one, a lethal

stain, so powerful

that it spread from one

to all, transmitted like

pieces of DNA never 

diluted to changed but

carried forward, offering

no escape, only death.

The cleansing flowed 

from one, a whitening

curative, so powerful

that any and all could

avail themselves of it,

transmitted as a learned

behavior, over and

over, offered free,

and freely.

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