Quenched Bloodlust
Janet Kuypers
11/20/19, on the 1945 day
the Nuremberg trials began
We have to treat this with respect.
After the atrocities we have witnessed,
after the slaughter of innocent millions,
after they treated the countless masses
as less than human, we must act humane.
We know our bloodlust for revenge
is not easily quenched, but when we see
what these megalomaniacal morons did,
the only way we can justify our hatred
is to spell out why they are so wrong.
“I was only flowing orders”, they cry,
they chant, like they are preparing
for that mob mentality, because it seems
whenever people succumb to a mob,
they do whatever they want and believe
that they are not to blame. They’re
just following orders, but ask then
point blank, and they’ll swear they’re
blameless. How can you blame someone
swelled with emotion when swept in a furor?
So let us bring the details to their attention.
Let’s spell everything out for them. And
let’s show them their signatures on forms
condoning this mass genocide. They can
keep sunglasses on, but they have to see
what they have done. In time, maybe
they will realize the error of their ways —
or maybe they will prefer killing themselves
to giving us our chance to fill our own
blood lust, until we can let our hatred die.
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