Wrath
Wrath Unleashed: A Chorus of Vengeance in a Nation's Dark Past
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Another page torn from our history
Reflection on a historical event or period
Another tale of our nation's painful growth
Narration of the nation's challenging development
The savage racist actions of a populace enraged
Highlighting racist acts by an enraged populace
Brought to assemble under a single blood lust
Forced gathering driven by a common bloodlust
A blood lust to burn, to torture, and to mutilate
Bloodlust expressed through burning, torture, and mutilation
To finally and utterly destroy a fucking human being
Desire to utterly destroy a human being
Guilt or innocence thrown aside as vengeance intercedes
Justice set aside as vengeance takes over
Blind vengeance that it is
Emphasis on the blind nature of vengeance
The staring eyes know all too well
Recognition of the knowing eyes witnessing events
A victim must be claimed
Necessity for a victim to be sacrificed
The children shout and cheer
Children cheering, possibly desensitized to violence
A chorus singing death's most foul deliverance
Chorus celebrating death in its darkest form
Its celebration and perversion
Highlighting the perverse celebration of death
The strange fruit they bear
Metaphorical reference to victims as strange fruit
These Trees
Symbolic mention of trees representing victims
The burning pyres the hanging limbs left as monuments
Describing the aftermath of violence with burning pyres
To the cruelty and the wickedness
Monuments to cruelty and wickedness left behind
So easily accessible just beneath the collective mind
Evil readily accessible in the collective consciousness
The brutality at the tip of every finger
Brutality inherent in every individual's actions
A call to arms a fusillade of bullets
Call to violence through a barrage of bullets
The judge and jury out of sight and out of mind
Justice system hidden or absent, replaced by vengeance
A pox upon us
Expression of a curse or affliction upon society
The sadness without depth
Depicting profound sadness without defined limits
At the bottomless void
Reference to an immeasurable void in humanity
In the soul of such an ignorant, unthinking people
Commentary on the soul of an ignorant, unthinking population
Whether strung up in secret or strung up in spectacle
Whether hidden or public, violence persists
Under pretense of justice or with no pretense but murder
Acts of violence justified or committed without pretext
To strike fear or to lay vengeance upon a man
Purpose of violence to instill fear or seek revenge
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