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    Thorn Wilde
  • Thorn Wilde
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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Thorny Poetry - 41. Moment

Eight years ago today, on the 22nd of July 2011, a right-wing extremist murdered seventy-seven people. He blew up a government office building in Oslo with a car bomb, before going out to the island of Utøya in Buskerud, dressed as a police officer, where he indiscriminately shot children to death with assault weapons, in protest of the Norwegian Labour Party's racially inclusive politics.

I wrote this as a song lyric not long after, but never published it anywhere. Doing so now.

it’s a beautiful summer’s day

all the children go out to play

nobody thought it would end this way

 

the sun is warm and the sky is blue

all day long i can play with you

believing in things that are good and true

 

falling out of the sky now

is it my time to die now

seeing truth through the lies

there is nowhere to hide

over in just one moment

 

don’t you dare to let go of my hand

aching so i can hardly stand

nowhere to go on this piece of land

 

jump right out and swim away

leave all behind, i cannot stay

wishing that there was another way

 

strike with a deadly blow now

bullet holes in the snow now

there's no truth in the lie

now we must say goodbye

over in just one moment

Today, the party the terrorist in question was once a member of is in government, still spouting the anti-Muslim rhetoric that led to the terrorist performing these acts in the first place. Last night, somebody sprayed a swastika onto a memorial for the victims of Utøya in Tønsberg. It's as if we've learned nothing.
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Thorn Wilde
6 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

Your song lyric makes me weep and despair, all over again. I remember the tragedy far too well. What makes some people so afraid that hatred and violence seems the only way to respond? 

I don’t know, Parker. It’s awful. What’s worse is that people forget. They forget which rhetoric leads to these things and just let it stand. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, isn’t that the phrase?

Thanks for commenting, my friend.

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Parker Owens
4 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

I don’t know, Parker. It’s awful. What’s worse is that people forget. They forget which rhetoric leads to these things and just let it stand. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, isn’t that the phrase?

Thanks for commenting, my friend.

I’m glad you posted this, even though it’s so very sad. We need to remember. 

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