It could have been any bus,
at any time, on any street,
laden with a potpourri of humanity,
each person a representative;
belonging…
*
But this bus passed one day,
October 1995, along a busy
down-town street in Tel Aviv…
Yes, in Tel Aviv it happened.
*
A person or persons unknown to most,
belonging to some deeply religious cause,
deadly serious concerning
their fundamental beliefs…
*
They claimed responsibility for
their intellectual unequivocal act…
detonated somewhere on their religious road,
a bomb they’d made at home to assist their just cause…
*
They chose this bus, loaded with innocents to explode…
the terrorists went up with the blast
taking with them twenty-three other souls,
many more seriously injured
left with scars to carry and remember
the just cause of the perpetrators…
*
Surprisingly defiant, planners, instigators,
members of the religious terrorists informed the world,
“We are this determined to be heard, our cause is just…”
*
Will their god bless them for such deadly protests?
I mean, they claim their cause is just…
sad to say, somewhere in universal Tel Aviv,
such bigotry and dogma still holds its terrible sway,
similar indiscriminate methods continue
stirring religiously and with bitter hatred fed…
*
Dennis Crompton © 1999
(first published www.denniscrompton.wordpress.com 2013)
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