Norway's Tragedy: One Man, One Cruel 'Belief'...

A survivor. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images (The Guardian UK)

Anders Behring Brevik, the accused perpetrator of the Norway atrocities, said on his Twitter account: "One man with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 with only interests."

If one has good intent in mind, I say this is a true statement. But I also say this:

"One man with a gun is more cowardly than the force of 100,000 with only interests."

 

One Man

One man, one bomb,

And seven dead,

One man, one gun,

A sea of red.

One man, one mind,

One cruel ‘belief’,

A hundred gone,

A sea of grief.

How can one man

Get it so wrong?

How can one man

Think he’s so strong?

One man, one goal,

A sea of pain,

One man, no force,

Just plain insane-

One hundred souls

Lost with no gain.

Norway’s gunfire and bombing victims, R.I.P.