After the fact


Saw the guy's face on TV
just an ordinary person
anger? Disturbed?
A tragic character?
What drives people to kill innocent?
IMpossible to grasp
or make sense
Keep hearing the words
"senseless" "Heinous"
I was taking photograph of babies
proud and loving parents
and on news
broadcasting the loss of young lives
and devastated parents
and the complete collapse
for the parents
whose sons and daughters will never return
and disbelief
at a son's murderous drive
thinking for the rest of their lives
what went wrong
what they did wrong
and to live with the accusations
and guilt
to carry the burden of depriving other
youngsters
and parents
of happiness in future tense
when 2 guns goes off on a school campus
and the world pause
aghast
not at its ugly head
but at its repetition
as politicians make their own motivated speeches
and gun advocates stand their grounds
somewhere in the silence
friends, sons, daughters, lovers,
might-have-been lovers, doctors
lives are lost
All I can think of now is
wet
upturned
soil
and grass which might never grow.