GENESIS
Louis Faber
Cain slew Abel
in a moment of anger,
a crime of passion
would be his defense today.
We can only imagine
what Isaac might have done
to Ishmael, had Haggar
not been sent off by Abraham,
after all he was a child
who saw the knife first hand
and helped sacrifice
the thicketed ram.
Joseph tasted the pit
at his brothers' hands
mourned by his father
only to emerge and forgive.
It is little wonder
we Semites can't get along,
Jew and Jew, Israeli
and Palestinian, we've
been rehearsing this act
for millennia.
