Outrage

Outrage

 

You were given no guarantee at your birth.

Toxins may find you through human miscalculation, mischance,

Mischief.

Toxins may find you by your own hand.

Is their creation, capability,

Availability,

A matter beyond your control?

Have you spoken out?

Have you petitioned, marched,

Occupied?

Is there a point when outrage is too much?

 

You have no guarantee of carefree existence.

Toxic persons may find you through range, rhetoric,

Relation.

Toxic persons may find you by your own druthers.

Is their influence, intention,

Instigation,

A matter within your control?

Have you gotten out?

Have you parted, permitted,

Paid?

Is there a point when the outrage is too little?

 

We are supposed to have been guaranteed equality.

Toxicity has found a seat in our governance,

In the application of law,

Throughout our House.

Toxic persons believe they are more equal.

Are their practices, performances,

Perversions

Matters within our control?

Have you spoken up?

Have you voted, addressed,

Challenged?

Is there a point when the outrage demands satisfaction?

 

We are at the nexus.

We can demand and uphold justice,

Or we can be diffident,

Allowing the criminals to count their money,

While innocents are slaughtered,

While the earth is shattered,

While the corrupt walk away from all charge,

And all lawful guarantees are just more talk.

 

Is there a point where outrage must be answered?

 

Are you not outraged?

 

Cliff Lake 3/31/2023

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