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Erupt

Make and consume 
edgy memes, 
manifestos of destruction
dance on your own grave
fill them with
echoes of your
whirlwind hate,
broadcast them into
the voids that fill your life
the chat group
Video group
Friends unseen group,
similar minds
that cluster and harden
fears take hooks
take hold
take souls
Take minds
take honour
Until
one morning
evolving hate
erupts.

What does it achieve?

Nothing...
Makes nothing
destroys little
For this mind 
restless soul
does 
not understand
Destruction is 
a dead force
Their own mark 
on the world
temporary
Their own 
birth and death 
temporary.

Only One
in the defeat of death
life's ultimate destruction,
Only one in the triumph
of love can bring hope,
A resurrected life
bringing life
Real change
for the surreal,
Peace is only a 
permanent promise 
kept by-
Jesus,
found only in
the person of peace-
Jesus,
The light in the darkness
Fully defeating hate-
Jesus,
the restorer
neighbourhood carpenter
who came to save-
Jesus,
God's skinned
passion, mercy, freedom-
Jesus,
The powerful name
A light that
Shifting shadows
are changed by-
Jesus,
A true friend 
the first unshakeable friend
truth of God's relationship
with races and earth's people-
Jesus.

Starting Thoughts: Following the Christchurch Mosque shootings (terrorism) I wrote this as part of my reflections and processing of the event. Can we not just allow God's love to be the core of who we are?
Poem Topic Tags:
#death, #destruction, #evil, #hate, #jesus, #love, #nothing, #peace, #power, #socialmedia, #terrorism, #violence
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,
Spoken word poetry on the need of the love of God in Christchurch mosque terrorism

Every Time

Every time
we speak/write/act
to separate
to blame
to tear down
to isolate
to gossip
to point
is it our finger
on the trigger?

Prompt
Where do we stand as individuals on terrorism? Reflections about the mosque attack Christchurch 2019.
Poem Tags
#crimes, #faith, #freedom, #god, #gossip, #hate, #humanity, #identity, #love, #murder, #poems, #poetry, #religion, #seeker, #spokenword, #terrorism, #themes, #together, #mosque, #family
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Shock

Repeated echoes
“You are in lockdown.
Follow lockdown procedure…”

How do you awake
to a new day
cloud thinning to
sunshine and blue sky
and suddenly 
remember the 
events of yesterday.

How do you
start the day 
with breakfast
eating a meal
on a chair
comfortable cushion 
safe in your house
when separate
in time and space,
separate to you
and your family
separate from values
you hope for,
this murder 
has stolen innocence
this cowardice 
has stolen strength
this hate 
has expressed itself
livestreamed itself.

How do you 
sickened
angered
grieving
raw
shocked...
speak out 
call out
live out
the heartbreak,
something remote
but close,
something confusing
yet seeking
the edges of clarity.

49 times the grief
90 times the agony
changing numbers
newspaper numbers
reflecting chaos 
triggering
greater family pain.

six hatreds
six tears
six thoughts
six degrees
of connected separation.

Prompt
With one quick call we plunged into lockdown at my school in Christchurch. Outside terrorism, stalked parts of Christchurch 2019.
Poem Tags
#crimes, #faith, #freedom, #god, #gossip, #hate, #humanity, #identity, #love, #murder, #poems, #poetry, #religion, #seeker, #spokenword, #terrorism, #themes, #together, #mosque, #family
Christchurch 2019 Mosque shooting Spoken Word Reflection
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