A nine year old boy dies
xxxxBlown up
xxxxxxxxTo shreds

Trying to return a plastic bag
xxxxCheerful grin
xxxxxxxxRuffled hair

Containing a detonating bomb
xxxxFull of nails
xxxxxxxxCrucifying nails

Carried by two men on a bike
xxxxBleeding faith
xxxxxxxxHoly Terror

Who fling it aside
xxxxTo explode
xxxxxxxxOn quiet faces

The newspaper lying on the sofa
xxxxHeadlines read
xxxxxxxx‘Deadly Saturday’

Tells me this story
xxxxTiffin bomb

xxxxxxxxKills two

As I hold my child
xxxxWarm and clinging
xxxxxxxxTwo month life

Trying to discover
xxxxShe’s asleep now
xxxxxxxxPalms clutching

My newly found fatherhood
xxxxLove is
xxxxxxxxA verb, an action

After two months
xxxxLove is
xxxxxxxxAn activity

Of my indifference
xxxxLove receives
xxxxxxxxWhen it gives

I rock her to peaceful sleep
xxxxSunlight
xxxxxxxx& Darkness