The Trouble With Terror Poem by David Baker

What vile resides in the hearts of some,

to do such terrors for reasons so selfish and dumb?

Yet, they do not seem to understand a basic fact:

their terrors will have little impact.

For no matter what they think or say,

terror does not win at the end of the day.



It's the feelings that elude them:

(Love, kindness, compassion)

that will defeat their vile passions.

For positivity is not something with which they can cope.

And, of course, there is their truest,

immortal, undefeatable foe...

Hope.