Fits

Powerful, uncanny, unpredictable
Scapegoats actually fearfully powerless—
Common, cross-cultural pattern—why is this?

The powerful and the unpredictable
Are real and occasionally do mingle,
Heightening suffering—but they can’t be touched,

After all, since they’re so unpredictable
And uncannily powerful. Yet who can
Quietly accept there’s nothing to be done?

Find someone weak enough to punish instead.
It won’t help in the long run, but the terror
And the bloodlust to be avenged on the great

And cruelly unpredictable will abate
For a bit, for the brief while vengeance is great
And feels uncannily powerful itself.