They live in today's world yet they exist
within a nomadic world of tribes and clans
where pagan belief in a panoply of gods
ruled humanity and they search out those
who defy the injunction to surrender to their
sacred faith in one supreme being else die
for their sins. Migrating restlessly within their
mission to destroy those unworthy of life
in homage to a thundering god demanding
appeasing sacrifice to assuage his rage they
approach their targets with the confidence of
believers, the inhumanity of slaughterers
and the certitude of martyrs claiming their due.
Ancient prohibitions commanding against
murder readily superseded by a religious devotion
dedicated to perpetuation of the myth of peace
attainable once the legion of enemies is destroyed
they haunt the consciousness of their defiant
targets in denial of threats of crucifixion
and beheading complemented by wholesale
dispatch through bombs vested close to the
hearts of martyr-bent, death-loving assassins.
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