A Reasonable Crime

Dark to black and beaten skin to living bone. Chosen by name and marked by birth. You hang me, cajole me and yellow badge me. You segregate, strip and stick me. Jackboot, shoot and gas me, but most of all you humiliate me. You denigrate my living soul A nation of teutons, with stiff arms and hearts fired with ice and faux compassioned isolation. You, who possess the freedom to hate without reproach are abhorred, like the craven lice you name me to be Now, free from your chains, I rise up. And, without trial, I beat you with relish and hang you with my revenge-filled heart. Is this not a reasonable crime? Will my peers turn away an understandable eye? Where does my revenge end and your piety-ridden justice begin? You, sat in your smug-filled homes, wearing your warm coats and smoking your dollar-cancered cigars, eating your belly-filling beliefs. Drinking with your full-sized families while reading through your victory-fogged lenses. I am hungry and I shall be fed. But I; I shall feed upon dead beliefs and drink without a full-sized family.