GENESIS 9........

Genesis 9

5 "Surely for your lifeblood I will

Demand a reckoning, and still

From every beast I shall require it,

And from the hand of man desire it.

And from the brother of each one

I shall require the life when done.

6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, by man

His blood shall be shed if one can,

For in image of Ælohim

He made man both to be and dream.

7 And as for you, be fruitful and

Become abundantly a band

Upon the earth and multiply

Until you fill earth by and by."



Beloved, require the vengeance of my life

That I have lost in this illusion's strife.

Must I eat meat and thus lift hand to kill

While there is oxen's grass enough to fill

Both oxen's bellies and the paunch of man?

I shall eat green grass if that's all I can.

But why should I eat grass when there is fruit,

And nuts abound, and ripened grain to boot?

Give me rightful dominion on this earth

And I shall crack the nut for all it's worth.

But if I find the wilderness of flood

I shall tread water and not drink the blood,

Nor slay the unclean thing to quench my thirst

And eat the roasted lamb until I burst.


From The Beloved and I by Thomas McElwain, Walker Quill Publishing