Name: Brother's Keeper
Duration: P00H02M53S
Description: This is the story of Cain and Abel, told from Abel's perspective.

Brother's Keeper

from Eking Out A Prophet by Ilan Speizer

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This is the story of Cain and Abel, told from Abel's perspective.

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I was raised a farmer. I bring fruit forth from the ground.
My baby brother was a shepherd. He mostly just sat around.
I always raced to harvest the very best bushels of wheat
Before they landed in the stomachs of Abel’s hungry sheep.
I kept an eye upon my fields and on those fat sheep, too,
But was I my brother’s keeper? I’ll leave that up to you.

Each harvest, for a sacrifice, I brought G-d damned good grain
And Abel brought the very best sheep, fattened by the wheat of Cain.
Abel found favor in the good Lord’s eye, to me G-d just said, “Fair,
But surely you can give as good as your brother over their.
Mortal sin crouches at your door and its aim is toward you true.”
Was I my brother’s keeper? I’ll leave that up to you.

I made a choice to sacrifice: cut my bro from the equation.
I saw a lazy shepherd boy as the object of my frustration.
I slew him and I hid him, still inside me lies a beast.
The mark upon me, killer, I was banished to the East.
But I found myself a bride and she bore me children, too.
So, am I my brother’s keeper? I’ll leave that up to you.

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from Eking Out A Prophet, released July 16, 2019

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