Flashpoints and firefights,
the world’s aflame with hate.
Innocents caught up in fear
cannot escape their fate.
Sanctity and insanity
go blithely hand to hand,
for combat over territory
on not-so-holy land.
Liars to the right of me
and on the left, too.
Fake news and fake tans
within our human zoo.
Stones in their pockets
and rocks in their head,
cheering for the demagogues,
mass frenzy well fed.
The poor are still starving,
the homeless sleeping rough;
their children have no voices
to call “enough’s enough!”
The proof is in the pudding
and it’s hard to earn a crust.
The oligarchs dine at leisure
while the peasants eat dust.
They scatter crumbs before us
as wine runs down their chins.
They slurp at the trough of privilege
and make us pay for their sins.
Blood shed on the prayer mats,
the hate’s got out of hand.
Murdering in mosques
brings fear to our peaceful land.
Today New Zealand made the news
and it wasn’t about sheep.
Today we lost our innocence;
nightmares will haunt our sleep.
The Torah is tarnished
and the Qur'an is as well;
the Bible is blemished,
we’re all on the road to Hell.
One man’s sealing
is another man’s flaw;
see the Saints go marching
through their Temple door.
Muslims have their Allah,
Jehovah is high above;
why can’t we worship together
in the name of God’s Love?
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Author Notes
I chose to live in New Zealand because it is the most peace-loving country I have experienced. Today that became corrupted by blood spilled in a hate crime inflicted on worshippers at a Christchurch mosque.
Reports said the initial target was to be a mosque in my own city of Dunedin, but the gunman decided he could kill more victims in Christchurch. This is horror on a grand scale for our small country.
Love is stronger than hate; we are a supportive community and we value our multi-cultural diversity. Such despicable events have no place here.
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