They will always murder

an honourable man, or at least

they will try.

 

They couldn’t get anywhere with making

Him look a fool, dress him up

in the tabloids as a traitor

to the cause, a danger

to the people and yet,

with knife in back, with

the blood pouring from the wounds

caused by his friends and the severing

of ties from his enemies,

the intended murder victim

rises clean and vindicated,

some will cry foul,

some will howl and call it a disaster