They stood in the centre of Brussels. Row on row.
Hands
held high, making hearts to the heavens. Showing the slaughtered they
were not forgotten. Reminding themselves they were here with love.
Looking to show humanity wins. That love conquers all.
They lay in the centre of London,
face down where they fell. Stabbed by a knife, rammed with a car,
flung, broken, into the Thames, life bleeding out on the curb.
And the news came thick and fast.
