THE VIOLENCE OF OUR ANCESTORS

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
There is no escape
We pay
For the violencе
Of our ancestors

There is no еscape
We pay
For the violence
Of our ancestors

There is no escape
We pay
For the violence
Of our ancestors

There is no escape
We pay
For the violence
Of our ancestors

There is no escape
We pay
For the violence
Of our ancestors

There is no escape
We pay
For the violence
Of our ancestors

There is no escape
We pay
For the violence
Of our ancestors