Reaching For Justice

We dimly remember the quiet times of our days

As we relearn the calculus of hate,

The fires of blind anger,

Burn in us

As we pursue, hunger, for vengeance,

We thirst for the blood of the guilty and the innocent,

The tortures of our own innocents searing our minds.

We are heedless of the wailing of our enemies,

  Happy in their asserted victimhood,

Glorying in new-found cudgels

To assault our very existence.

We weary of admonitions from friends with good intentions

As we seek to slake our hunger for justice.

Can cooler heads prevail

As we strike the evil guilty

With care and grim determination

And an appreciation of our burgeoning strengths?

We strive to achieve just solutions

To our satisfaction,

Remembering the untold numbers

Of our precious sacrifices

On the perilous path to our survival.

We must prevail!

MR

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