Poet's Cafe Forum Knee Jerks

Another stunningly-sad scene plays out on the T.V. screen. 

Another mass-shooting, an evil-beyond-understanding scene.    

                       But this one is different--terror comes to our shore,                                     

the repercussions and consequences too hard to ignore.   

A new chapter with which we have to contend.  

A hard truth is coming, our days of it's happening somewhere else are at an end.   

I hope I'm wrong, God, I hope I'm wrong--and so it'll begin, 

the misguided retaliation against an entire religion, the wrong spin   

will be given by a handful of idiots, who blame the entire for the few, 

"We'll show them!" is what they'll say and, unfortunately, do.   

They'll take it upon themselves to mete out a skewered justice, 

against them all, even though the vast majority are blameless.   

It's just human nature, I guess, to fear what we don't understand, 

and there is no understanding the religious extremist's brand.