2021 Poetry & Storytelling Competition Volume 4 | Page 19

Terrorists are all dark skinned men

Terrorists somehow are not

white men in white sheets burning

churches and killing children.

Terrorists are everywhere they

wait for instructions in leaderless cells

in small rooms tiny rooms

with the walls closing in and

Who are the terrorists?

Who are the good guys?

How many 12-year-olds with bb guns

need to die again, and again, and again?

How many bankers were shot for

stealing the country while a man

selling loose cigarettes is strangled to death

on TV?

The sounds of war

war shows on TV

war

it’s

war

Who is the enemy?

Who is

winning?