Brothers - Rebecca del Rio

[Larry Robinson]

Sometimes you pick up the newspaper and you think it’s Cain and Abel out there. But sometimes it feels as though it’s Cain against Cain. You can’t tell who’s the good guy.
	Nadeem Aslam

Brothers

When there's not enough to eat,
nothing to feed the spirit,
to clothe the mind in novelty,
we wander.
Migratory animals, 

We step into occupied
Territory, call it our own,
Plant crops, rape
The women, the land.
We reap our rewards, turn

Blind to acrimony,
Centuries of injury.
Our defeated brothers and sisters
Plant revenge, seek to sow
Justice. What god

Exalts one brother over
The other? Blesses one then,
Curses the other
So peace can never
be possible?

In all of us: a Cain, 
condemned by god—
Rejected, vilified brother,
Jealous of our brother, made so 
By our jealous god.

	- Rebecca del Rio
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