All is secular
wintry as the gas chambers.
Terrifying how common are the unspeakable moments of history
appalling injustices
make quite a compendium
war crimes
genocides
rapes
aren’t rare.
Distrust metastasizes
like appalling cancers
loathing your neighbours
leads to massacres:
whole cultures are uprooted.
It is legion.
Robert James Berry 2014
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Robert James Berry 
This is a really clever way of transforming the verb: “Distrust metastasizes”.
Once again, you’ve constructed a very powerful poem, Robert, one that turns a spotlight on humanity’s capacity for evil.