This al-Qaida Of The Mind

This al-Qaida of the mind
invades a rational state
with views that coincide
with parasites that eat
their host of living flesh
without respite.

It feeds on hate,
it breeds immaculate
of able thoughts, a
consummate insanity
that generates
its hatred by itself.

It aims, if mindless aims
are lucid thought, to set
a caliphate in place where
people stand and freely
choose, imposing deeds
on those who live.

For those who died
the fires burn – consuming
mujahedeen
and infidel alike
with undiscerning
antipathy.
© 25 April 2007, I.D. Carswell