It is the scourge of unsettled minds
that deeply embedded subliminal urge
enshrined in group memory to rage
and to destroy. From the Golden Calf
to Akhenaton's Aton, Bamiyan's Buddha
Rome's ruinous sacking of Jerusalem
and the newly outraged successors to
colonial rule, humanity has excelled in
raging against the past, denying history
wielding the fury of the oppressed to
hammer cultural artefacts as though
their destruction could alter the trajectory
of world events. Yet nothing is sacred
not the resting places of the ancients
buried with their treasures to carry
them royally into the following life
awaiting their arrival. The subconscious
urge to destroy fulfilling a vacuous
wish to attain power over the once
powerful. Alternately looting the heritage
of subjugated people carrying home in
triumphal procession the sacred relics
of the ancients, clamouring for notice
that the possessors have gained what
others have lost in gainful conquest.
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