Nancy Kaufman Poet Narrative

How Many More Peace Keepers

Time marches on but the story doesn't change.
Innocent lives being taken by a person whose deranged..
Last weekend in Pa. it was our state police, one is still
critical, and the other is now  deceased..
The unstable shooter is also now gone.
Will this ever stop? What keeps going so wrong?
This tragic story truly rings home for me.
I had a person with mental health struggles in my family.
Psychiatrists rely on the pharmaceutical industry and
prescribe new medications that alter patients' brain chemistry.
Family members are often leery to commit, because our mental
hospitals discharge the patient still unfit, and they are left to
deal with the brunt of it.
At home, these families struggle to keep things in control.
Many times that stress alone will take a major toll.
How many more peacekeepers?
How many more innocent lives is our society willing to sacrifice?

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Sotto Poet June 23, 2023 at 8:49 AM Congratulations on your magnificently crafted poem. Unfortunately, the toll of mental illness has resulted in the loss of numerous lives. Nancy Kaufman June 23, 2023 at 3:29 PM It was an Officer Jacques that was killed and he was only in his late twenties. All so incredibly sad as the State Troopers were trying to find this man just the night before when his family tried to have him committed but he was paranoid and hiding out somewhere. Nancy Kaufman June 23, 2023 at 1:49 PM Thank you Sotto. The instability of one family member can and does really wreak havoc on the other members. I am praying and asking our community to pray for State Trooper James who was shot in the head and is still critical. A younger officer, only in his twenties passed.