Consumed

Dare I speak of lessons stretched long in history too often pushed aside, lost to news and media coverage swept away by some newer tragedy more apparent, less transparent, more rampant than recognized. How do we then see ourselves as people with the anger and the hate held in check then bursting forth exploding to consume any peace and love? Dare we try, one more time to erase the past and change the future to become better than the dream to rise, to stop accepting the unacceptable and to cleanse our children from all our inept prejudices by which we have become consumed.