V. “You shall not kill.
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Could Adam’s seed envision paradise while jealous rage created primal sin of mortal against mortal Cain devised, through frenzied hand, to slay his next-of-kin? And do You sanction all the havoc raised down through the sands of time to understand Your wrath and retribution when You gaze on Abel’s lifeless form in desert sand? “You shall not kill!” at first glance, seemed to be an understatement easy to allow before my reason festered, to foresee Cain’s pestilence progressing to my vow. Does circumstance revise Your fifth decree that You might compromise with such as me; reversing Your design at Babel’s tower, commuting sentence to safeguard the hour with five, then garbled much the same as languages from Babel came to teach all tribes of errant man the why of your reflexive hand in view of my acute propensity for justice with complete intensity? When honor wins; through life blood has been spilled can scoring be refitted, or instilled, within the arch of none and ten to guard my key to heaven in an altered numeric design accommodating 0 through 9? If, in context, I choose amorphism evolving from commitment to relate to Malta’s Knights against implosive schism what pattern, then, would YOU choose to create? Would Wisdom’s eyes devise an algorism by calculating zero to negate eyes reflected in cold prisms? Else how can Cain atone, or compensate?
| The Curator’s Notes: This is the poem. The one where the Air Force wife married to a man trained to deliver nuclear holocaust wrestles with “Thou shalt not kill” and asks God directly: Does circumstance revise Your commandment? Can you compromise with someone like me? This is brutal, honest, intellectually rigorous, and theologically daring. She’s not evading—she’s confronting head-on. This poem is rooted in unflinching moral honesty. It offers no comfort, no resolution, no escape. Just the question: “Else how can Cain atone, or compensate?” |
The Coping Stones 