[Nigel Mace]

The horrendous events in Woolwich have been followed within hours and within days with further revelations of the horrors wrought by the policies of the Blair and Bush eras and of their ever growing effects.

Time was when our societies marvelled at the savagery of those cultures encumbered with the traditions of the blood-feud. Now, with the BBC screening a 'documentary' on the Iraq War, we are having to re-hear the liars of the past paraded, unpunished in the present - while ordinary people across the world from London to Lahore, from Baghdad to Boston are still being killed. One would think that so much blood would be heard but, even in the best of our media, it still seems remarkably hushed.

DUMB BLOOD

Butchery in Woolwich -
hacked about by lies,
squandered in our real world -
doomed by self-dimmed eyes,
statesmen seldom answer
rightful law’s assize.

Each of our false rulers
served his own regard -
drones dash dreams of millions,
Shia/Sunni charred -
death broadcast’s brought here, how
war makes home-truths hard.

Dual vision’s nonsense;
everyone can see
each life taken’s wicked.

Damn both leaders B…