Will you be content when you see the nation burn?

Comfortable in justice being done and the millions

who are suddenly afraid of you, enough to throw their hands up

in mock surrender, and who know that they could end up

choking on their own ideals.

The nation has sizzled under a pressure cooker so great

and for so long that it can be a surprise to the senses

that the loose flying sparks that live in the memory

have somehow not caught alight and burst into