Song For Terror

• Haydon Leigh, Grade 12, John Therry Catholic High School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'The Write Track 2015' competition

Be perplexed by the papers, as reports and reminders of terror
Reign over the land. And don't let the promise of prosperous
People fall final in minds of the many. But, hear the horizon
Of halcyon hope, and listen to lutes playing love; not terror.
Be amazed by their actions, as people and persons resist
The lost reign of the terror. Be filled by the future of family
Fearing, to be saved by a symphony that we will create.
So hear the harps of a harpist to know love and not terror.
Be subdued by the sieges of the senseless and sinning
Disallow though, the terror that terrifies cities, so promise
The people of fearful denial, that justice comes flooding
So fast, like the Nile. So see the sun rising and sing; not sin.
Be renowned by the rapids of ridiculed rabid attacks and the
Antics of those armed with terror. Be a person pronouncing
The word of a world with a stutter that startles men clutching
A doubt, brought about, by the end of the terror. So sing.