Atrocity is recognized as such
By victim
And perpetrator alike
By all who learn about it
At whatever remove
Atrocity has no excuses
No mitigating argument
Atrocity never balances
Or rectifies the past
Atrocity merely arms the future
For more atrocity
It is self-perpetuating upon itself
A barbarous form of incest
Whoever commits atrocity
Also commits
Those future atrocities
Thus bred
By victim
And perpetrator alike
By all who learn about it
At whatever remove
Atrocity has no excuses
No mitigating argument
Atrocity never balances
Or rectifies the past
Atrocity merely arms the future
For more atrocity
It is self-perpetuating upon itself
A barbarous form of incest
Whoever commits atrocity
Also commits
Those future atrocities
Thus bred
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It was a pattern the sisterhood
Had long recognized
The inevitable failure of slavery
And peonage
You created a reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created a reservoir of hate
Implacable enemies
If you had no hope
Of exterminating all of these enemies
You dared not try
Temper your efforts
By the sure awareness
It was a pattern the sisterhood
Had long recognized
The inevitable failure of slavery
And peonage
You created a reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created a reservoir of hate
Implacable enemies
If you had no hope
Of exterminating all of these enemies
You dared not try
Temper your efforts
By the sure awareness
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
It was not growing up
That slowly applied
The brakes to learning
But an accumulation
Of things I know
Things I know
It was not growing up
That slowly applied
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
Thinking you knew something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
It was not growing up
That slowly applied
The brakes to learning
But an accumulation
Of things I know
Things I know
It was not growing up
That slowly applied
The mind can go
Either direction under stress
Toward positive
Or toward negative
On or off
On or off
Think of it as a spectrum
Whose extremes
Are unconsciousness
At the negative end
And hyper consciousness
At the positive end
The way the mind will lean
Under stress
Is strongly influenced by training
Either direction under stress
Toward positive
Or toward negative
On or off
On or off
Think of it as a spectrum
Whose extremes
Are unconsciousness
At the negative end
And hyper consciousness
At the positive end
The way the mind will lean
Under stress
Is strongly influenced by training
When you think to take determination of your fate
Into your own hands
That is the moment you can be crushed
Be cautious, allow for surprises
When we create
There are always other forces
At work
At work
At work
At work
A process cannot be understood
By stopping it
Understanding must move
With the flow of the process
Must join with it
And flow with it
Must join with it and flow with it
That which submits, rules
Into your own hands
That is the moment you can be crushed
Be cautious, allow for surprises
When we create
There are always other forces
At work
At work
At work
At work
A process cannot be understood
By stopping it
Understanding must move
With the flow of the process
Must join with it
And flow with it
Must join with it and flow with it
That which submits, rules