The sacrifice is painful 

Costs, hurts, wounds deeply

Any other way, it is cheap, hollow, meaningless

The difference between Cain and Abel

An armchair warrior and a real one who bleeds

A paper tiger and the Malaysian one

The empty promise and the fulfilled vow

The bodyless cross and the crucifix

The birth betrayed

The marriage spent 

And the summoning of the thundercloud

The cracked, perfect offering