I Looked At Evil
I looked at Evil: it wore a suicide vest
My cause is just, it claimed
your murdered children my price
Kill me, and a thousand martyrs fall in behind
You cannot kill me, it smiled
for I am dead by a tug of this cord
You cannot kill me, Evil declared
You cannot buy me off
You cannot reason with me
Don’t bother to plead with me
for my ears are closed
my mind bankrupt
my heart already a corpse
You cannot kill me
for I am already dead
You cannot defend your children
for I am Evil
and I wear a suicide vest
The Laughing Housewife 
Pretty much sums it up, Tilly. Well written. Aching for you over here.
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It is sadly all too true…peace be with you.
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Yet another tragic day for mankind. ❤
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ah,Tilly. And so close to home, as it were. The hardest part is not knowing who, or what, or why. Take care, lady.
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Sums it up. How can supposedly rational thought become so hideously twisted as to see justification in such acts?
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You put into words the very thoughts that are so hard to put into words. Too close for you…. take care.
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I know you’re all the way across the big waters, TB, but I hope you’re feeling my posvibes coming your way. Great write, this.
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Tilly,
Another awful tragedy where innocent people are the victims of deranged idealism.
My heart goes out to all of the families of the victims, their pain must be beyond imagination.
We have lovely Muslim friends who shake their heads in sorrow, despair and shame every time something like this happens.
They come from the southern part of India and are proud that where they grew up Christians, Muslims, Buddhism, Sikhs and Hindu’s lived in the same street without any problem at all.
They arbore this kind of violence just as we do, but have to bear the brunt of fall out, for instance when his wife goes out with her headscarf on. Some people hurl insults from cars… luckily these are the minority but that it happens at all is painful.
I hope that some way might be found to stop the radicalization of people, to overcome the point where they feel they can commit terrible acts like this.
I also wish that 100% of the attention went to the victims and NONE to the attacker, if it were up to me, there would be a total and permanent News blackout as to the identity of the attacker so that even if they died they would know that they had not had any “fame” at all.
I wish a speedy recovery for the injured, and deepest condolences for the families of the victims who lost loved ones. My heart goes out to them all.
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A very moving poem, Linda. My heart is so sore for all the innocent family so cruelly affected by this evil act. xx
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It’s impossible it seems to fight against this, isn’t it? You penned the sort of thoughts I’ve been thinking. Hard to know how to react to the bombing or the shooting of the day, and when it hits close to home, it’s beyond numbing. Thank you for writing this. I’ve been pushing my pencil around about the recent Kabul bombing myself. I haven’t yet been able.
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Thank you to all of you for your kind and supportive words.
Stay safe x
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