tractable

credulous suckers
seething with rage
stoked by children
they threw in a cage

how tractable the masses
led by braying asses
who equate Other with Lesser
how sadly few
the second-guessers
those with an eye to history
would do well to wary be

not convince themselves
that time will some day forgive
the harm they make while they live
pretending they serve a greater good
for underneath every hood
a head who claims a cause

but unless empathy resurgent be
we'll all be crushed in the jaws
of cruel and corrupted laws
and mourning what was