‘Intellectually they are in the dark, and they are estranged from the life of God, without knowledge because they have shut their hearts to it’ Ephesians 4.18

Jerusalem Bible Online

Drowning is a terrible way to die.

An inescapable nightmarish ghoul-like

vacant response to a desperate plea to live.

Virtue signallers blind even to the blood

screaming for help, perhaps even staining

their police boots in the dark.

So very in the dark.

Platitudes, appeasements abound.

Truth is subjective and we have backed a side.

Oh of course this is not the first time

and only a fool could think it the last.

The race and the colours

the faith, the gender

its all been tried before

in different combinations

of hate in action.

But to not notice a man stabbed

to not notice the urgency of his wounds

to not perform the basics vital signs

to not see a life as vital at all

they say there was ridicule as cuffs went on

the bleeding man.

Those servants meant to protect

blinded by false moralities

have extinguished the line

dragged themselves into polite hell.

In the good old days

hospital wards and accident emergency

routinely erected boundaries

between victims and their perpetrators

trusting the Law would deliver

a just resolution to their altercation.

As for who should live and die amongst them

was not an evil we entertained.

It’s later than we think.

For Henry Nowak who met with a tragic death see here. He was eighteen on a night out with pals. RIP.