Let's go to the fields,
Cain said to Abel, and
The concept of murder was created.
Murder can't be merely murder when the family is all there is on barren earth
It's fratricide, an ugly word
That few will taint their tongues with
And fewer still apply to their own selves
But Cain dared to do so
As Cain would always dare to do the disallowed
In the beginning out of initiative
Later simply out of habit.
Let's go to the fields,
He said, and
Abel went with him
To watch the wind on the wheat
And to stare at the sky
The last dregs of the grayish clouds like rotten milk.
Let's go to the fields,
Abel agreed, and
Thought as they walked of God and sheep.
Cain thought of sheep and why they pleased the Lord
He thought of smelling colors
Tasting sights, he touched the sound of his brother's breath
Until he crushed it out and
And and and and and and
Let's go to the fields,
I say, and
I say I want to talk to you, Cain
Because you who were the first brought into the world by the people
You were the first to stamp one of them out
Because I want to talk to you
Because of this, I do
Because of this because because
Cain, the blood of your brother cries out from the ground
The vengeance of the Lord will know you yet
It will catch you
I don't know why you're running anymore, O Best Beloved of Eve
Adam doesn't want you anymore
They carried Abel's body to the grave, Cain.
Cain, the blood of your brother cries out from the ground
And now the earth will not serve you, Cain
You are cast out
Say your goodbyes to the world you knew because you're never coming back.
"But now someone will try to take my life."
Cain, the blood of your brother cries out from the ground,
It isn't true, Cain, that you will be killed,
For whoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken upon him sevenfold.
Here, here is a mark
To wear on your forehead
And never to give away
And by this men shall know thee
And no one will hurt you anymore save your own self.
Cain became a wanderer of the world.