What if we should try the left field option?

And wandered off message or ditched the script,

And shouted out loud: ‘Just stop the killing’.

To save the people, not yet dead, from those

Like themselves, but dressed in different garb.

Save the lives, save the years still to be lived,

Stop the anguish, the tragedy, the waste.

Turn force-fed anger into peace, disarm,

Roll back false frontiers, choose the way of friends,

Embrace your enemy and plump for love.

But talk like that sets tutting tongues a-wag,

Flint grins and weary shakes of knowing heads

Join the queue of global condemnation:

A modern take on the men in white coats.