These Violent Delights Ought Have Violent Ends

If you make a man who thinks he is a man, who you speak to as a man,

Who you then refuse to treat like a man, and will not truly call a man,

Why take surprise when your caged creation acts unlike men do?

When the thing begins to gnaw back like the beast you think him be,

Like the core of his code has been exposed for his own two eyes to see,

Why take such surprise when your beast boy fights back?

He acts only in the ways you say he will,

Fights only in the ways you say he will,

He is trapped within the cage you made for him,

And then you blame him too, for his own madness.

You blame the prisoner for your wardening of him.

You blame the prisoner and have rightfully imprisoned yourself.