This Is No Horror Fairy Tale Poem
This is no fairytale poem this is the reality
Of the twenty first century,
The era of religious political minds gone mad
Preying on the young manipulating robbing their souls
As,
Graveyard eyelids close and open over compassionless eyes,
The young female drone obsessed with promised martyrdom
Moves into the centre of the busy market place.
Her young slim body is now swollen to an obese size
With the aid of dynamite strapped to her body
Hidden under her dark clothing of lies,
Make no mistake here moves a killer
A mini 911 creature a black plague,
A killer of women and children all innocent souls
Where the Hell is the route of this insanity
Is it the Aztecs digging hearts out for the sun God?
The Romans digging roads in other people’s back yards?
Gengus Khan preaching his beheading technique?
Each side of the many faces of man
Pointing the trigger finger at each other,
Each with the mythical coat of divine blessing
From their own misconstrued religion.
I don’t know the answer but I do know
When the young bomber blew herself up
In the market with 45 other poor souls
I do know the authorities put her head in a bucket.
Disturbing write Ken. But these things do happen and we can’t afford to shy away and show our backs to such tragic incidents either. Thanks for writing this one.
Painful!The basics of any religion seems to have the same rule,to love and respect life , what makes the people to push to the opposite extremes I could never understand.. I wish I could know what makes people going to have a good time at soccer games end up killing each other.. What on earth happens with people acting worse than beasts? What do they feel threatened of? We are fed up with books and movies and news of of unbelievable violence, but no one will try to explain why and how can we control such impulses and escape a negative influence..Because I suppose any of us could be under it if at a wrong time wrong place..Good poem thank you for share.
well said, tfs.
Well written piece of such terrible atrocities.
Excellent stark imagery and "hell is the route of this insanity" really caught my eye, also "misconstrued religion". Terrorists have no conscience and blindly follow. A powerful poem Ken~
Yikes, I think George Romero of "NIght of the Living Dead" fame said something to the effect that the real world scared him so much he had to create another scary world to offset it.
Congratulations Ken! You too a fine Historian as Raj Nandy.
Nice poem that denounces the increasing trend of terrorist activities of one kind or the other, in the world, Ken...wrong interpreters of religions inject poison of sadism and cruelty in the brain of their naive and week-minded followers
Ken you have covered a broad spectrum of history here ! Every time I read English History for composing my Literature Story , I am amazed at the number of Plagues that visited England ! One of them killed 1/3 of the population and brought Surfdom to an end , giving rise to the initial Labour Force who could bargain for their wages ! Thanks . -Raj
A scary piece, incidents such as these are becoming more and more common place...
a balanced pragmatic mind never seeks destruction of mankind.but the times are such,the value of human life is non existent.disturbing negative thoughts brings about insecurity.this lovely poem has a message for all !