Some Thoughts…

We talk and talk

We try to understand

the whys and wherefores

when one takes gun in hand

and takes the lives of innocents

without a second thought.

We need to make some sense

of something that does not.

We ponder and we wonder

We dissect his words and woes;

we watch the way his eyes move,

his body language, and his clothes.

We can't understand the anger

We can't understand his pain

He doesn't think as we do;

that is very plain.

We have scrutinized and

torn apart

in several different ways

the things he said

the things he did

and are still left in a daze.

Here is my conclusion

for the little it is worth:

Let there be no illusion ~

Evil walks upon this earth.

We'll never know the wherefore,

we'll never understand,

the ramblings of a tortured soul

who takes a gun in hand

and kills so many innocents

without a second thought

We can't make sense of something

that goes against all we've been taught.

So, remember them with flowers,

with candles and with prayer;

and a promise to ourselves

to tell our loved ones that we care.

© Christina 4/19/07