Patient Wrath

you think you’ve seen the most blessed forbearance
in the stoic and poised patience 
given to the child by a good parent?
behold the people on whom  
the ugliest crimes formed 
from the vicious habit of 
an ugly empire are heaped
 
you think you’ve seen the most righteous wrath
in the good parent’s desperate 
protection for their child harmed?
behold the people on whom 
the ugliest crimes formed
from the vicious habit of
an ugly empire are heaped