Short Mark Of Cain Poems

We are often the
  most critical

Of what we are the
  most guilty of

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2015)...

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Anger empties the human brain
    leaves behind the mark of Cain

  The face of him who's slammed is drained
    ~ once-vibrant heart now silenced, slain...

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Designated driver,
your road to end at last

The choice was yours, mistake inured,
your future now your past

Designated driver,
those high beams in your eyes

A haunting name, the lasting blame
—that night your dreams reprise

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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He died
the day before
his birth
the curse had worked again

Generations
in the womb
their feticide  
a last amen
 
The garden path
a stepford trap 
whose fruit trees
bear the scorn

Enoch built
to hide the curse
the Mark of Cain
— damnation born

(The New Room: February, 2024)


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The way 
              of Cain 
ever
       leads
                 to pain
anger
so plain
              so great
              to bear
shouts,
hits out
            with
                    lies
denies
kin's
             cries
then
sighs
            ill met
            marked
forever
with
            regret...

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Death twisted history,
guilts conferee
the liar unmasked
revenge by decree

His legions unfurling,
their flag through the smoke
the volunteers hailing,
preserving all hope

With dark days upon them,
no fear to be found
the women, the children,
in place underground

Around every corner,
behind every door
their liberty sacred,
today—evermore

(Warsaw: March, 2022)...

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Working in jobs we loath,
buying valuables we do not need.
We have no substance to survive on this,
our souls we can not feed.

A million miles away,
across oceans and cracks.
Exist people that own everything,
everything we lack.

The Mark of Cain,
we have burnt upon ourselves.
Ever plummeting southwards,
our conscious delves.

He collects them in bottles,
our evil ways.
Waiting to release them,
at the end of days....

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The office of credibility
Stamps their approval
Signifying
A latent rising over the stalk

Chafing, is the stigma
Medicalizing or criminalizing
The avid loophole watermarks
Blurry in their dispossesion
Searching for means to an end

What end of perspective?
Could ask for proof
Of insanity
In a doctors authoritative opinion

Avoid the brain drain
because the permanent records track
Putting the mark of cain
On social histories of the past...

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