The Second Coming
Perversions like when violence becomes
Male bravery are worst. When honor slides
To murder beaten into shape by drums,
Then whitest principle on horseback rides
Across the Muslim children in a ward.
The Holocaust stalks from the Temple Mount
And slaughters the Palestinian horde
Of innocents, a Ravensbrück recount
Slouched over Palestinian babies.
The holiness of words from desert strands
Procures beheadings. ISIS, like rabies,
Produces foaming blood on snarling sands.
An infant isn’t laid on straw.
Young football players enter Israel’s maw.
