Diabolical (A Poem)

What is evil, really?
A malicious act of agency, but also
an abject lack of empathy –
to accept the inhuman with complacency,
to offer hate and meanness gleefully,
to look upon the farcical face of cruelty and answer back:
“But the economy!”
History has a knack for becoming judge and jury.
When its eyes turn to you, what will your children’s children’s children see?

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