TERROR ROAMS

Leaving home now is not a natural thing.

Fear sometimes cloaks and surrounds you as you go innocently on your way,

Hoping you will not meet a knife-carrier on the street today.

It is amazing that they have not learnt that it does not give them strength.

It is the means to take their own life away, too.

After the attack, many perpetrators are caught within hours and, after a trial, are packed into jail.

Under threat from attack by other criminals, never knowing who has your back.

Afraid to be alone or join one of a pack, or to be singled out for too much praise,

Which gives rise to other inmates’ jealousy and rage.

Leaving two families in different ways forever changed; no way back.

So, before you pick up the knife, just remember it has the power to destroy many lives,

Not just now but for generations to come, destroying yours, too.

If not caught, the guilt will weigh you down and fear will reside in your chest.

You will never be the man you wanted to be, a man of worth, respected.

Cloaked, not in fear, but in the arms of generations of a loving family.

The choice is yours, mine too, never to carry a knife anywhere with you.

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