Compassion As Tragedy, Part II
...You see it when folks speak of ‘the oppressed,’
determined to make sure “It’s all redressed,”
if you’re ever suffered you need compassion,
no matter the evils you yourself have done,
so criminals who go riot and steal
deserve compassion, their “struggle is real,”
get let out early, or don’t face arrest…
then repeat their sins in greater excess.
And terrorists who target innocents
on purpose to see their message is sent,
get defended by ‘compassionate’ types,
who feel they’re oppressed, the their actions right.
Eve when infants they decapitate
the compassionate cry, “Violence is hate!
Do not strike back, that will just make it worse,”
ignoring the people they put in the earth.
Terrorists know this, make people their shields,
for them to die so the ‘compassionate’ squeal,
use that compassion to preserve their lives
when by right their evils means they should die.
Does this mean that all compassion is wrong?
Of course not, some degree always belongs,
but too much is as bad as to little,
like many things we should aim for middle,
not think that it can solve any crisis,
human nature just does not allow this,
for all the good that compassions brings me,
to use nothing else just brings tragedy.
Copyright © David Welch | Year Posted 2023
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