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Ode to Beyond Condolences to Sanity
This time, every sane person must stand up and say,
“No more! Stop the murder! Give Peace!”
Even the Earth exhales its sorrow reaching heaven’s gate
As innocent children faced weapons of war in their classroom
As a 10-year old child smeared blood to escape the carnage,
Defaulting children’s right to life as targets for legal bullets;
Protecting guns’ epidemic idolatry of violence before citizens,
While insane power drips blood money from gun lobbies
To arm more guns, lock more doors, fortify more freedoms.
Even Nature weeps at reunification centers matching DNA’s
Explosive damage from guns built for maximum destruction;
Even Nature’s volcanic fire and fury can’t equal a psychic killer
Sacrificing children with such eternal lava of family pain.
Condolence clouds ascend to heaven with shattered dreams,
But legislating war weapons can happen if heaven’s grace matters.
How many more children need to die? Give them peace. Let heaven wait.
Annemarie Berukoff
How can prayers ascending to heavens provide peace? This is not an event in time…this must transform the topography of violence and the laws that support it.
