Children's Hour in Colorado, 1999Trench coats do not create terror
Pierced lips do not create terror
Even Marilyn Manson
Does not create terror
Loneliness
locked inside your heart
where no one can hear you scream
is terror
Not even the internet
Not even the guns
Not even the swastikas
Create terror
Pain that doesn't have an end
that eats silently away inside
becomes a black hole
unrecognized by all averted eyes
a non-event horizon
you slip across
to spend forever
sliding down
Terror is not born in talk of guns.
Terror is born in silence.