Divine Cruelty (potentially stupid yet possibly insightful)

Cruelty is divine

It is a shared experience

With actors and audience

Switching roles willingly

From the outside

One can argue, successfully

That unbalanced power dynamics

Ensure that the roles are set in stone

And that the victims are unwitting and helpless

While the aggressors are, well, cruel

This is why compromise is impossible

This is why there can be no real treatment

For those cast (by others or selves) as cruel

Once we take away the complexity

Of gains and losses

Of the importance of roles

Of bias and ignorance

We have defeated any chance

Of facing the detestable comfort of cruelty

All the while dooming ourselves to the divinity

Held within