Kindle the embers lying deeply
submerged in the psyches
of those who see intruders
into their societies as threats
to be destroyed even those who
have lived at peace for millennia
under a covenant that recognizes
their presence as distant kin and
the overheated whirlwind of
suspicion turns to hatred bathed
in the molten primitivism of
survival unleashing the primeval
urge to kill those posing as innocents
whom hate identifies as lethal threats
and a society whose disparate
tongues and faiths, tribes and clans
suddenly turns into a murderous
mob intent on destroying what
generations have built each
convinced theirs is the only
entitlement approved on high
for is it not their faith for which
they are prepared to sacrifice
uncountable lives of infidels?
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