hate

stuffed with the propaganda of ignorance

passed between generations like a starving gene

nourished and fed by a society too blinded

by its own greed for dominance to notice theirs

they mark themselves with symbolic pride

wear their beliefs upon their pale skin like screams

bemoaning the wrongs inflicted upon them as if

the world owes them a debt and goddammit they will collect

through havoc and disaster until they have washed

in oceans of violence and been baptized by blood

and still it is not enough to vindicate them

it is only a ripple when they long for a wave

a thunderstorm when they want hurricanes

it will never be enough to quell their hateful lust

they are poison that has been injected into society

consumed by fire and spread like an epidemic in its veins

while the rest of the world sleeps with open eyes and

blank stares before the televisions and radios and newspapers

deluded by the belief that it will never touch them if they

avoid the demon eyes and allow the pillage of its share of souls

trying to ignore that cold breath against their own necks

when the sun is clogged with the darkness of a world gone mad

because this fucking war should be about power not fear

they should be held as saints and martyrs for their roles

this is what they tell themselves and those who might listen do nothing

but play deaf and mute while the body count rises in the streets and

blood pools and spreads to forge a path for that next generation

of zealots and fools who follow without taking the time

to ever ask why as they place their feet upon the bloody path

of a map that leads to inevitable destruction  and desolation

refusing to learn from the past as these cretins usher themselves into

extinction by fighting a war they swear they never started while

ignoring the blatant fact that when day and night are one with the

stench of smoke and burning flesh they will open their eyes

to find that their fates have always been the same