All the wider context losing

A force far deeper than our anger

Elemental as a storm

Annihilating all before it

Terror brings enraged alarm

This force saying self is threatened

Runs to rise and to protect.

Most murderous when we’re most alarmed .

Rage the enemy detects.

Over-riding other feelings

Depriving of the power to think

Like a nuclear tsunami.

 Disconnecting human links.

Reddened vision,focused,narrow;

Eyes locked onto enemy’s .

All the wider context losing,

Wipes out the good memories.

 Like a mother tiger fighting,

Or the cornered eagle’s force;

We  destroy what we think other,

 Without bitter,pained remorse.

Nature made this to protect us;

Yet our perception can be wrong.

Once the flood of feeling takes us

All reflection seems too long.