Mohamed Bouhlel

           Mohamed Bouhlel

“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!”~ Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful are the feet of him who

Stomps hard on the accelerator of

A truck to run down children by that blue,

That wine dark Mediterranean.  Love,

Some higher kind of love, motivates such

Feet.  Surely they don’t smell of human male

Sweat.  They are ineffably out of touch

With mundane care for little kids who pale

To insignificance when higher aims

Come into play with pedals driven by

The love of Allah.  Nothing normal tames

Such sacred, stenchless feet.  Their creeds deny

Parental love.  These شُهَدَاء * are dads

Caught up in Islam’s Seljuk godly fads.

* šuhadā:  holy jihad martyrs