Abel the Just, Pray for Us

Abel the Just, Patron of Victims,
Pray for us. 

Not the histrionic ones or numbskulls
who create their own damned misery
but those oppressed by the eminence
of circumstance: emergencies, disease, 
another’s incompetence, wildfires 
– the innocent ones.

Pray for them, remembering 
your head bashed in by your brother
left to rot in a furrow 
of your well-tended field. 

Ask the God of Justice 
to live up to the name;
no matter God’s answer 
reach out to the wounded
and hold their hand. 

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