I awoke this morning
In this UK land
Where people went about
Their daily plan
Someone else awoke
In a different dream
All he left behind
Were silent screams
His twin brother
Their Solicitor at work
A colleague, a friend
What lit this spark
His rampage continued
From village to village
Hindsight, gun sight
Leaden pillage
Many others perished
To this mind from
The flick of a switch
His internal bomb
Then the inevitable
To a wooded covering
Can't face the music
No guilty hearing
Once again
There's the ones left behind
Who have to unravel
This man from mankind
America and Finland have seen recent events on a tragic scale.
The UK has in the past seen such events also with Hungerford
and the children in Dunblane. Sadly we see it once again.
May his soul ROT in HELL.
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If we are lucky to wake every day
But spare a thought for what i am about to say
For many years and for what ever reason
There appears to be, crazy shooting season
Its not just recent, it goes back many years
Always grief and many tears
Below i highlight just a few
Who perished as their bullets spew
Uireyeong, S Korea in 1982
Virginia Tech he killed 32
In Dunblane, kids as young as 5
Access to guns, did not leave many alive
These killing sprees and the reasons they do
To take the life off me and you
What turns these people into Spree Killers
What flicks the switch, into stomach chillers
Whether female, whether male
What makes their respect for humans fail
The hurt and pain as they shoot away
Lasts not for tomorrow, but many a day
What beggars belief, and i cant comprehend
To face their music, so their crime doesn't end
Instead they shoot themselves in the head
Families hurt, never put to bed
The only word my head displays
Are these cowards, who end their days
And leave behind such hurt and pain
And thank the lord, they can't hurt again
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