On learning about Alanna Quinn Idris (17) who needed emergency eye surgery following a savage attack which occurred outside the Ballyfermot Civic Centre on the evening of December 30th 2021.

I wrote this on Jan 4th 2022 :

Who goes armed

With metal and wood

Intent on harm,

Up to no good?

Who sees human other

Like sister, daughter, mother

And lacks compassion,

Intent on smashing,

Breaking,

Fracturing,

Shattering?

Who are these people?

Are they still people?

What are the source wells

That broil up

Such

Fountains of vicious savagery

That erupts and flood

Into our streets

And homes

And rush into crush crunch of bones?

Can a tide be stemmed?

A torrent staunched?

Who are they?

Why do they do?

Who are we?

The who, what, why?

Is it their fun and games

That someone loses an eye?