Last year
They blasted a city square
Exulted in a bath of gore
That was Paris
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When terrorists all over the world exult in macabre dance, we can only pray for sanity in madness! Powerfully presented!
This terror has been part of our history, The Christians called it the Crusades and the Inquisition. Fundamentalist Muslims call it Jihad. Until that religion 'reforms' and all or all religions dissipate and disappear, this will continue in one form or another.
Your poem is a good reminder of our freedoms: We have freedom to sympathize with the pain of others instead of inflicting pain. We have the freedom to engage with others in non-hurtful ways. Before we did anything to deserve them, such freedoms were instilled within our hearts. Now we have to endure the pain of seeing them trampled by ingrates.