Devout Sacrifice

If you’re home to a few sad truths about racism 

and bigotry, why not add in a leg or two; there’s 

room to dob in religious extremism cited a pure 

means of expressing the same outside a creed. 

If we’re fobbed off too easy deeming it a wrong 

then we’re equally guilty of turning a blind eye -  

like allowing culpable homicide to be defended 

by a ‘devout sacrifice’ sanctioned in suicide 

Lamentably we all have to dwell in an equivocal 

contingency of being equal when, in truth, we’re 

anything but; there are those governed by belief 

and others by risible facts, it’s thus we see gaps 

where the solidarity should be - & killing anyone 

for its credence won’t alter the status of that 

© 22 June 2015, I. D. Carswell

The Charleston Church massacre likened to 

examples of radical Islamist extremism