Terror's Cloud Poem by Barry Middleton

the cloud has covered up the blue
the gray has banished all our hope
and everything we thought we knew
to rob from us the will to cope

the breeze is whispering beware
so toxic is this mist and smoke
that every breath must bring despair
from horrors that our fears evoke

within that cloud a demon hides
and spreads across the fragile earth
to block the sun where light abides
with our frail legacy of birth

so we must meet the haze of death
and make this pledge beyond despair
to banish terror from the earth
and grant the innocent their prayer

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After the terrorist bombing in Manchester, England, on May 22,2017.