Park Bench Tales and other writings

Thoughts and writings reflecting the poet within and the activist


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Take Aim at the Kindergarten

Take Aim at the Kindergarten

Just another group of children in a school

That is the aim of the terrorist without a rule

No military targets are in the area nearby

The drone was sent to ensure that children die

Just another episode of calculated genocide

Along with sustained attempts at senicide

Civilians are the targets that are identified

Ignored by a nation that abhors feticide

Small children are trapped in a burning shell

Rescuers must brave the terrorist-created hell

Carrying youngsters clear of debris and dust

Watch for falling beams to avoid being crushed

Just another episode in Putin’s illegal war

How much longer can the rest of the world ignore

How warped is the mind targetting the child

Why do we watch as humanity is defiled

Children cough and choke in the confusion

Whilst some claim there must be no retribution

Instead they now only talk about surrender

Adding insult by rewarding the offender

How do we now value the life of a child

We are standing by as humanity is defiled

Shame on us all if we choose to ignore

The evil spreading from this cancerous sore

Copyright: David Hopcroft November 2025


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The Domestic Terrorist

The Domestic Terrorist

The hidden face beneath the hood emits a scowl

The only purpose in his life is now to terrorise

Hiding in crevices are those that tremble with fear

The innocents that his leader chose to stigmatize

Yesterday she had played with her friends at school

Now she’s crouching in a cupboard beneath the stair

Listening to the jackboots stomping through the rooms

And the screams of her mother yanked out by her hair

Behind the mask one felon follows orders given by another

Executing a script that was penned with poisoned hate

His life no longer has a meaning the only purpose to obey

As if his racial Christianity is by his birth innate

He is the excrement of a warped and twisted mind

The malformed dwarf subservient to a master’s greed

Brain dead following his instructions like a robot

Living with the false myth to plant the white man’s seed

She could hear her elder sister’s cries for help

As the masked terrorist beat her and tore at her clothes

Raped by a monster that had no concept of humanity

A gruesome figure that worships a devil in king’s robes

The child cowering is found as the door is kicked in

Terrified and traumatised she lets out a scream

As the terrorist flings her into the unmarked truck

Convinced he is now living out the American Dream

Copyright: David Hopcroft June 2025

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