Sunday, November 30, 2008

Poem - Terror in the Looking Glass

Kabul
Baghdad
Mumbai
Twisted metal
Broken glass
Blood-stained pavement
Mangled bodies
Chaos, confusion and carnage

Death, death, death

The papers and TV tell us Islamists from Pakistan
With possible ties to Al Qaida
Are prime suspects in the Mumbai attacks
Ruthless, righteous, full of retributive hatred
For Westerners

What do they want?
Why are they so eager to die
And take innocent people with them?

Is the answer in them?
Or us?

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