Monday, May 10, 2021

The Spurned

Streaks of light are seen as Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel May 10, 2021 (photo credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN)

There will always be a way to express hatred 

and there will always be a target for that hatred

vituperative, poisonous in the trajectory of its 

exodus from the depths of a common sinkhole 

of rabid rage to the ears, eyes and minds of the 

recipients who once took it upon themselves 

through their ancient sages to be a light unto the

nations who collectively spurned that light

deriding its source and spewing the venom

leading to justification for genocide. It is in 

human nature to try again when the initial effort 

failed, and there have been occasions when 

the effort was urged on repeat mode and still 

that stubborn people will not abjectly succumb 

to the scorn but proudly insist they are what 

they are the designated people forever spurned 

yet held to the very expectation from others 

that they must suffer for it is their assigned lot. 

A shrug, a sigh, the mustering of resilience and 

hope and carry on as we must, for it is destiny. 

 

 


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