A response to the breaking news today and last week (3/27/23) and far too many other days.

Will it never stop?

Again and again the

Breaking News

Another child, another teacher

dead at school

Every week, it seems

Another school

Another community disrupted

And yet, we don’t act

Schools aren’t the only deaths

Parking lots that never make the news

That never capture our “national” attention

Are they less worthy of morning or acting?

The robbery gone wrong at the grocery store

Is it less worthy?

The bank where a disgruntled former employee

shoots those thought to be the culprits

Indiscriminate in the destruction

Is it a call to change?

We morn them all

For a day or two, maybe a week

Then there is another and another

When will we do more?

Activists are born of each act of violence

We don’t listen. Instead expel the messengers.

It’s someone else’s problem.

When will our , so called, “leaders”

have the Courage to act?

To save the children?

To save our souls?

To save the stranger we will never meet?

To bring an end to needless suffering?