*This poem is in response to the horrific senseless attack on three people today in Woolwich in London, one of who was a soldier. I’ll leave a link afterwards for you to read up on the still very fresh story as I type this. My heaert goes out to the victims involved.
Just seen the shocking news
how many more lives yet to lose
Before peace and goodwill
in a world where people gladly kill
This horrific attack on three there were
feelings of shock and fear do stir
And reminders of past attacks
in these dark days black
Thinking of 9/11 people wonder why this came to be
conspiracy theories everywhere in the land of the free
From the way the building collapsed to a lost plane
paranoid America has never been the same
It was the first time they beheld an attack on home soil
shocked they were but twelve years on they still boil
Blood has been spilled and lives destroyed
all for power, ignorance and misguided pride
Britain has been attacked a thousand times
sometimes deserved, sometimes for its crimes
And the innocent are always caught inbetween
whilst the guilty kill or order but never seen
Eventually this all has to end
then no need to fight or defend
all war is for power and greed
So these people can feed their need
It’s we the people who do normal things
that have the true power, not those ‘kings’
Who sit in their homes, bank accounts full
who send their children to very rich schools
They say it’s for our benefit to help us all
to free us from oppression democracy’s call
But there’s no such thing as democracy here
only an illusion shrouded in fear
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/woolwich-shooting-incident-police-scene-145253998.html#PTSFTWS
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-05-22/woolwich-police-incident/
Caliburnus Rises 
withheldindarkness
May 23, 2013
I can’t get over how calm they were after the murder. Bystanders approached the murderers and there appeared to be no threat to them … wonder how their views have been so warped?? Twist and turn holy words to suit their will. Terrible act. I think I might have to give a poem on the subject a crack too. Thanks for the inspiration (even if the theme is something I would rather never be).
Darren Greenidge
May 23, 2013
I know. They said that they would never attack women but women should see the acts as they do in their country, emphasis on the their when both had British accents, indeed, strong London ones too.
Those women were very brave to confront them but risked being hacked to death themselves. They took a very dangerous and calculated risk in doing that and we could have been reading a very different story today.
I despair at humanity sometimes and of what it is capable of.
I’m glad you liked the poem and I am intrigued at what you may write on the subject too. I’ll keep my eyes open.