The Triumph of Death
Painting by Pieter Bruegel
Evil Walks In Mysterious Ways
Evil works in ways that we don't always understand
It would be easier if it were obvious
A horrifying monster, for instance
A caped villain with a knife or gun
Even an armed soldier fighting for an army hell-bent on destruction
These forms of evil are easy to understand
What is impossible to truly understand or fight
Is the thought process that makes certain people want to harm others
The disaster that takes countless lives
The disease process that destroys a body's cells
Those things that leave us more terrified than any enemy we can see
Because what we cannot understand, we cannot fight
And so, we cannot win
~Ellie~
Note:
I didn't stick strictly to the prompt, which was to write a riddle poem. Instead, I pondered a topic which has no satisfactory answer: the existence of evil.
