Poetry

The Promise is not Dead

by Michael Kusi
11/13/17
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Adam and Eve were in the cave.

Sadness had taken hold over their hearts.

They had just discovered Abel’s

Lifeless body.

The first murder.

And Adam and Eve knew who did it.

It was Cain.

And Eve had a word to say about it.

I told you to keep an eye on Cain

She shouted with all her might

The cave shook with her anger.

Sadness had turned to rage.

Yesterday they had two sons.

Now they had none.

Eve continued

Because once she started she could not be stopped

And Adam knew that.

Eve pointed at Adam

Cain looked at me with the same eye

That the serpent did when he told me to eat the fruit.

Something was in that boy

Or rather someone……

She stopped there.

Eve could not bear the thought.

Adam sat down in a daze.

He had tried to teach Cain

The word of God

But Cain’s mind was always elsewhere.

Cain liked to take care of the plants.

Like Adam did in the garden.

Adam thought they had bonded.

But Cain did not want to hear

About the Lord God of heaven

He said with a sneer

If God was so good why did he kick us

Out of the Garden

Adam had to stop talking

Because it was stirring up feelings

That Adam would rather not acknowledge

Abel was, different.

Adam then replied to Eve

Abel is with God now.

Abel.

So trusting.

Until the end

Tears formed in Adam’s eyes

And he said, We may not see him again

But God will.

Eve then walked around and picked up a rock

And smashed it to the ground.

She screamed, “And who is supposed to be the Promise now?”

The Promise,

The one that God said was coming to bruise the heel

Of the one that deceived them.

Adam said, He deceived Cain too.

Cain went to be with his God.

And Abel went to be with his God too.

The Promise will come.

Because God will provide.

It would be on everyone’s lips in the Bible.

Eve was comforted.

But tears still watered her face.

She missed Abel

All she knew that day was that it was the sacrifice

That Abel and Cain had to give to God.

And Abel came to her happy

Because God had accepted his sacrifice

Eve asked, What about Cain?

Silence impregnated the moment.

Eve now wishes she would have followed up.

Abel said he was going out to meet Cain

His brother.

Abel left.

And Eve would never see him again.

Adam said, “Now we have to bury our son.”

I don’t even know what to call what happened.

This must be the death that God said

Would come to us when we left the Garden

Eve replied in tears, There has to be hope.

Adam said, The covenant is still there

Between us and our God

And even though one of our sons in the grave.

A son shall come to us

Who will be the Promise.

Eve looked happy

Because now there was hope.