What then might so degrade the human spirit?
Visualize gorging continually on the lure
of believing oneself victimized, inspired by
the outrage of a lesser claim than you believe
to yours gaining the prize you coveted. Move
on or remain. Alternately carefully nurse that
grievance and set out to inspire others to blame
those you claim did you ill. Chances of success
hinge on the cultural-social-religious repute of
your inferred transgressors, and luck has it that
your wound becomes theirs. The festering rage
and hatred seeps into deep psychosis, like a
suppurating lesion dripping venom, destroying
reason and humanity, in its place raw barbarism
inciting the mind to take pleasure in violence
inspiring the wreaking of terror against any who
represent the usurper of the victim's aspirations.
An entire population of self-identifying victims
find joy and redemption in meting out rancorous
spite and slander, celebrating wildly at news of
their death-inspired champions brutalizing and
mutilating the chosen enemy before the death blow.
Mothers and grandmothers ululating in triumph
and children taught to bully, threaten and aspire
to be elevated to the adored status of martyr.
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