Enduring Malevolence

Once, in the dim mists of time gone by

we were all people of the desert, tribes

differentiated by tradition, culture and 

heritage at variance in the existence of a

spiritual creator for whom each was the

most exceptional of all, eyeing one another

with suspicion overcome by existential

necessity or clashing on a battlefield for

regional supremacy. Evolution has produced

many changes in our environment and our

capacity to exploit the resources of the

natural world, yet nothing has altered our

original primal state of tribal dissonance. 

From our origins to our present the cradle

of belief and faith failed to unite the Semites

frozen in time to the present in their distrust

and antipathy. Each consider themselves

Chosen, choosing hostility as their link to

the past, capable of committing atrocities in

expression of ancient animus toward the

stranger in their midst. Civilizing traits

have evolved to differentiate those advanced

from tribe and clan to the  universality of

humanity, while others cleave unreservedly to

their primitive emotional aversions prepared

now as then to strike in violent reprisals

to avenge ancient conflicts simmering deep

in the collective savage subconscious where

a single tribe among the many soared to the

emancipated heights of human achievement 

in consequence bearing enduring malevolence.