Grieve...

Grieve-
       for those who lost
       their children, brethren, parents.
Mourn-
       those who lost their blood,
       their eyes, their lives.
Give voice-
       to the silenced dissenters,
       those who lost their voice,
       their right to speak, their freedom.
Condemn-
       those who maim, wound
       with impunity
       and those who grant them
       that draconian right.
Expose-
       those peddlers of lies,
       those heartless self-centred egomaniacs,
       in whose patriotic fervour
       people have ceased to matter.
Reason-
       with oneself,
       take a stand,
       one backed by rational thought
       and a desire for suffering to end.