8th January 2015

Charlie Hebdo

Who would think coloured pencils, weapons of mass creation,
were responsible for the carnage on a quiet Paris street?
This close on the heels of children butchered at their desks,
classrooms running red with blood, lives ending incomplete.

Outrage simmers, disbelief, for all those gone we mourn,
 no threat to any other, their right to freedom gone
by terrorists who live and die by barbarous violence sworn, not
comprehending the pen will always be mightier than the sword.