All Is Forgiven

The tidy and reliable social contract has
turned itself inside-out, the civilizing effects 
of enlightenment and compassion now rejects 
the dictatorship of the majority those who fit
themselves comfortably into the expectations 
of a society that had no time nor patience for 
the social outcasts who deigned not to join 
their ranks by choice or by the indelible stain 
of birth identifying them as different and suspect
of inferior status, of deviant values with clear 
indications they were not entitled to share any
of the bounty of aspirational future success.
In the 'progressive' new social order prevailing
now, all those who can proudly lay claim to
victimhood monopolize tender sensibilities
as politicians genuflect in the aura of social
justice and news media fall into line to so
lugubriously detail the sins of the past that 
kept them contemptuously on the margins of 
existence in the back streets and alleyways not to
be noticed but now are proud possessors of that 
invaluable 'get out of jail' card that forgives
them their incapacity to obey laws, overlooks
their over-representation in drug dealing
their gang alliances, killing sprees and theft
for they have suffered mightily to come to
such a pass and the majority is therefore
obligated to give them time and again that
veritable free pass for they can do no wrong.