Mercy Tempts, Too Late
Redemption of a tragedy by facts
Is not enough. To gather them and write
Them out slinks, paltry. Call up pulsing acts
But they are lost if they are in the plight
Of scholarship. Recording them is not
Enough. To put them in the rites of page
Or documentary on screens is taut,
Too tidy for the spillage. We need rage.
Yet rage is not enough. Destruction, hate,
Revenge, and God are needed in the form
Of pain and death. Obliteration’s weight
We yowl for, thermonuclear the storm.
..Think Dresden and Hiroshima at least.
….Forgiveness is a failed and heartless beast.