Where marinated in our murky past have we found justification for the travesties we do, build prisons where our prejudice lasts, and allow its prisoners to fester as they stew
I have felt this heat. The flame which boils in the toils of others, whose oils lick embers into wildfire. And we fall back into the Dark Ages.
where minds who place burden on those with different skin slink flicking flint to fire, raising from the earth the walls we have spent decades taking apart one brick at a time.
one brick at a time, comment by comment, each passing moment condone it. ignore it.
passivity pays the builders of this monument. who see no wrecking ***** to stop them. passivity, fills the pockets of the petty coin by coin collecting courage to speak outwardly outrageous slurred hate speech contagious barbary amounts its fortress from our silence, one brick at a time.
I have seen the origins of intolerance, holding together the cinder blocks of utterance all the moments we should have said something and didn't. In my selfish silence I see senselessness slip past my snares. In my hush I hear hate harrow the ventricles of hearts much weaker than the speaker.
Loathing left untended like loose mountain snow will like an avalanche gain strength in movement.
To you, the architects of abhorrence the creators of execration I plead: lay down your urban dictionaries. Know that you lay a foundation whose structure will build up, but whose existence will tear down.
To you, those who watch the construction and stare in silence sufferance, know that although no sweat has fallen, and no aid has been laid by your hand, That this malicious monument is as much yours as it is theirs, through your willingness to watch it go up one brick at a time.
This was originally written as a spoken word piece.