Brother Mine
Where are you brother—brother mine?
I wept when you did stray,
You were begotten after me,
Before came men of clay,
When we shared visions, mirth and love,
With all our morning song,
Before we brought to life and loved,
That universal throng;
Rejoiced did we in heavens voice
From dawn to setting skies,
We sang those songs as angels sing
With glowing, mirthful eyes—
I shed a tear, my brother dear,
You were so pure and free,
Our Father even gave to you,
The earth and flowing sea;
Though formed you were from brightest clouds
Of galaxies afar,
Beyond the mists of nebulas,
Reborn of sun and star,
But then you let that hateful thing
Send through your heart a lie,
You let your love turn into hate,
And then you let it die;
And now I weep not just for you,
But all your hatefulness,
Upon the earth your die was caste,
With just ungratefulness,
For all the good our Father did,
For too, you were a Son,
But you could only hate me more,
For all that I had done;
For all such envy, greed and hate,
The human family pays,
Disguised they are with jealousy,
Ambition is its craze,
For all your hopes, aspired dreams,
There are none that are true,
For you are just an incubus
With days so very few;
While all the world groans helplessly
In pain and suffering,
While we who stayed and sent the light,
Endure its evil sting,
And I for one did come to you,
Reborn in human flesh,
You tempted me with winsome words,
My heart you did distress;
O how I yearned that you might see
My love for humankind,
But while on earth you tortured me,
For whips and nails did find
Their way upon me till the death
That wishful, sinful stain,
That I should never be reborn,
To ever bring you pain;
But come I will with multitudes,
And God’s redemption pure,
With all our Father’s promises,
In love and life secure,
And I will bind you just as I,
Was bound in nakedness,
And I shall send you to your place
So deep in earth’s abyss,
And I shall leave you there till comes
The day that you shall see,
The answer wasn’t mine to give,
But all who were set free.
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