We’re never there

we are the ones you'll never find
in protest lines of angry hordes
with petrol bombs and catapults
the ones that overturn your car
who raid and strip our local stores 
and set up ghettos of one thought

we're the ones you never see
the buttoned-up majority
who never seek to find offence
or shout about their sufferance

we are the ones who melt away
we are the ones who pray
for peace and practice that belief
though outrage burns as lividly
at senselessness, stupidity
that you have brought to bear 
- and still, we're never there!