Outrage!

Mass Shooting in Orlando, Florida!

Don't tell me it's happened again.

The question of seeing more mass shootings

Is not a matter of IF, but WHEN.

 

Currently, fifty-three have been injured,

While forty-nine people have been shot dead.

How do you fathom such an atrocity?

I can't get the horror out of my head.

 

The Governor said to pray for the victims.

Well, it's a little too late for some.

He ought to say pray that people

Come to their senses and deal with how come:

 

How come people can let their hatred

Push them to such an extent that they spill

Innocent blood, and laws make it

Easy for such miscreants to kill?

 

Hate crime? Domestic terrorism?

Or maybe the work of a radicalized thug?

Maybe a little of all three?

Just don't pass it off with a shrug.

 

The father said his son had been angered

From having seen two men kissing.

To shoot up a nightclub based on that

Shows that he had some marbles missing.

 

Such incidents also show

The power of ignorance to hurt and malign.

Despite the efforts of humans to rise

To greater heights, some are mere swine.

 

(6-12-16)