Can You Hear It Now?

The silent subconscious of inherited

memory aches into an eternity of

apprehension never knowing how 

and when the next creeping insult

the following violent assault

will begin as the mass cringes in

fearful anticipation and others

among them set up their own barriers

of social rejection absolute and fearless

outside the bounds of civil law

feeling not much to lose even though

they've little to gain, voluntarily

submitting to a lifetime imprisoned

their rage releasing them from the

lifetime of societal bigotry as an

entirely similar type of prison. The

echo chamber of their minds find 

little solace in the chagrin of leaders

and promises to reform as they trudge

through life raising another generation

to merge into inequality and poverty.

Then a final assault on sensibilities of

justice and intolerance in blatant murder

and suddenly that echo chamber is

amplified and its crescendo becomes

a riotous rejection of a nation's civil

normalcy exclusive of that minority's

human rights. Can you hear that echo?