They waited for wayward boys in need of an attitude adjustment. They wait still, as long as the sons – and the sons of those sons – remember. –The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children - The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children." – Euripides
“he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.” -- Exodus 34:7 by Moses and others
and so we are stuck aren’t we
sins rolling on through
generation after generation
touching not only the
haters but the hated,
the oppressed
and the oppressors
the masters and
the slaves
each with a memory
becoming myth
turning over to
protected dogma
each with their own
view of the sin
each with their own
response.
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