MR. MASSACRE MAN (OSLO MASSACRE)

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JOURNAL # 41

you can tip over the apple cart
but you could never wipe out a whole
entire orchard
by stepping on the few rotten apples
you perceive as a threat
you proved to the world
that we all have our own crazies
and to think
you who look so sane
and normal yourself
meticulously put together
a plan that massacred
nearly eighty
but why your own country men
for when you do so
you make more room
for those foreigners
you claim to fear
to step even farther in
and get a stronger hold on
the fringes of your society
even before your senseless acts
were done
misguided you were
'Mr. Massacre Man'
fear and hate monger
carrying around a car bomb
and an automatic weapon
you, so like that of a coward
have become
going on to kill
innocent teenagers
canoeing and hiking at a
youth camp
born to such a lovely people and land
but you couldn't see the truth
even if it were written upon the back
of your own hand
God lives in every living creature,
plant and organism
but most especially every
breathing thinking man
whether he be
a Buddhist,
a Christian,
a faithful Islamic to his holy Quran
or even a Hindu spiritual holy man
why even the most adamant atheists
are unknowingly guided by
his all loving hand
all are soul invested humans
infused with love from
the most magnificent HIM
living the lives they were
brought here to live......................
(July 26, 2011 534am)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

When one witnesses such senseless horror all one can do is lean more steadfastly upon God and pray for the answers and if those answers are not meant to be revealed in this life then we must pray for peace. I cannot have a talk with this supposed Christian Terrorist so I tried to work through the darkness of what this man did to his own countrymen, women and most especially the children and tried to fight ignorance with the strength of truth, love and knowledge. I kept thinking of Jesus and I heard his all knowing words echoing throughout my head 'Forgive Them FATHER For They Know Not What They Do' life is far too precious to let ignorance and hate come between men of such advanced thinking and technology. With the blood of our world brothers flowing in the streets of countless countries we shall rise to fight off such evils only if we stand and fight it together. Last Friday when the bomb dust had cleared for just a moment the whole world I'm sure felt it was a Norwegian.
Note, I reworked this poem with the help of my friend and Editor Amy I think I like the poem this way rather than the apple cart comment being at the bottom and in the poem I am more so talking to the terrorist directly and that to me reads as a bit more powerful. I hope you enjoy this revision............

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