When Violence Meets Its Match Poem by Dorsey Baker

Anger!
Can turn a peaceful human being
Into a vicious animal!
Turn to violence
Instead of peace
Turn to passion
Instead of reason!
And like a wounded animal
Being preyed upon
Start to strike back
In fear!
It's something we often do
Without hesitation!
Something in our nature
That instinctively
Compels us
To do something evil!
Violence against violence
The only peaceful
Solution violence brings
Is death!
Violence only has the
Power to destroy
After that
Nothing else it can do!