A force  far deeper than our anger

Elemental as a storm

Annihilating all before it

Terror makes our rage  perform

This  force thinking self is threatened

Runs to  rise and to protect,

Most murderous when  we’re most alarmed

Rage an 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  our good memories

Like a mother tiger fighting,

And the cornered eagle’s force;

We will destroy  what we think other

Without  bitter,pained remorse.

Nature made such to protect us;

Yet  our  perception can be wrong.

Once the flood of feeling takes us

All reflections seems too long

Later, if we see our victims,

Will we know that we have erred?

For  hate deceives ourselves and others

When our inmost terror’s  bared.

How can we step back and ponder,

See life from a wider view?

How can we become less blinded,

So  we see our world anew?

Succumb  not to final despond

Succumb not black despair.

Often there are those who see.

Often  there are those that care.

Tempered by reflective wisdom

Rage can change  when understood.

When we find another being

Who helpd contain our frightful flood.