Terror Rained
The day my life went 'hatter' mad
When carnage of the saddest sad
Rained down hell from high above
One soul of darkness void of love ...
What horrors did my eyes behold?
The limbs of humans shredded cold
Twisted, that soul with hatred rife
Defiling the sacred charge of life ...
O what perversions faith has spun
When babes are target number one
In such a world of grief and doom
Where love and joy find little room ...
Why is innocence thus debased
By fiends who wear a friendly face?
Countless tears that terror draws
For such forsaken, heinous cause ...
How can we hope to e'er defeat
This beast with evil so replete?
How will we quell a monster thus
That laughs and lives and looks ...
Like US?
( This is about the mass shooting that took place in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, and ALL such terrorism world-wide )
~ 2nd Place ~ in the "The Day My Life Went Whacko" Poetry Contest, Caren Krutsinger, Judge & Sponsor.
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