"I've Never Seen a Terrorist" (poem)

I've never seen a terrorist
but I've watched one on TV.
All I ever saw
was someone wanted to be free.

They need me feeling fear
of some guy I never met
as if he's got some harm
he's planned in his head.

But if there's any evil,
it's something he just learned
as no-one's born for killin'
and the bones must be earned.

So what does he want
that he has some truck with me
if all he really wants
is to set his family free.

Must be to kill the jailer
as who else locks the bars
and anyone who helps him
is going to take some scars.

I've never seen a terrorist
yet I've seen them on TV
But it's a pack of other horrors
getting visited on me.

When my sister has breast cancer
she won't show a tear
as she might well be dying
but she won't show you fear.


Children who don't have a chance,
Homeless don't have any grants,
People die without a glance
Where's the government
all this time
perchance

Cops turn cities into urban wars,
Crack turns women into stalking whores,
Kids go bankrupt for their cause
Where's the government
all this time

it roars!

Fight the terrorists, my people,
you can see them on TV.
Come to help us kill them.
Don't ever set them free.

Fight the terrorists, my people,
you can see them on TV.
Come to help us kill them.
Don't ever set them free.