The Return

A pastiche to Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

1.

The sins of the father

Fall back on creation

The sons of the father

Fall back on his word

The creator of sin is god

Man in god's image

True sinner is god

2.

Blood be the zenith of

Human capacity

Blood be the signifier of

What's red and unyielding

Blood be the line

Man draws on the living

We pay for god's sins,

We pay it, not god

3.

God on the coin

His hand on the ledger

The search for all meaning

Dead on return

The meridian thus kneels

On cosmic dissension

We are slaves in keeping

God's image immortal

Clburdett, 2021