in the woods
writhes in agony, as violence
claims one life after another:
young men and women; children
and their teachers; peaceful citizens,
minding their own business, caught
in a maelstrom of bullets.
The most recent mass murder
took place in Orlando, Flordia.
But it might have been
anywhere, and even now, somewhere
as yet unknown,
there may be another individual
stoking the fires of fear,
discontent, and hatred
until they suddenly explode into gunfire and broken bodies,
leaving blood stains on pavement
that a sea of tears cannot
wash clean.
--Sydney Eddison
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