We knew it was to happen

Somewhere within a crowd

More terror visited uselessly

To try to make us cowed

The carnage and the mayhem

The tragic loss of life

This time a home-made IED

Last time a car and knife

What sort of mind can plan this

How mad must someone be

To be a bomb, a murderer

A lunatic running free

This cause cannot be justified

Though perhaps I waste my breath

There is no place in paradise

Secured through others’ death