Life Has Value, Or Does It? (Poetry)

Doesn't Life Matter Anymore?

How many instances of violence can we accept? When will we stop believing everyone thinks life is the most important gift ever received and values it above everything else? When will we do something about it?

A mother cries loudly, sobs her daughter’s death song,

victim of a drive-by, so atrociously wrong.

A father huddles children, their mother has passed,

late night store robbery, her skull viciously bashed.

A grandfather clutches pillow, grandma’s not there,

break-in murder victim, strangled in her own chair.

A girlfriend watches news, lover’s car off the road,

a road rage statistic, a savage story told.

A world questions horror in the madness at hand,

all searching for answers, desires to understand.

“Blame guns, upbringing, cast blame on society,

to jail never send them, it’s just insanity”

Networks air stories, psychologists fight to speak,

their words, defy logic, it’s prominence they seek.

“Not himself, in a zone, blanked out during attack,

not bad, needs attention, a good guy can come back.”

A young boy watches close, attends school late this day,

takes a knife, stabs a classmate, knows that he’ll get away.

No praying, no believing, no “Eye for Eye” rules,

believe validations, create the Devil’s tools.

The world makes excuses, and lives life normally,

and crying parents wonder, “Oh, how can this be?”

These Questions Need Answers

Has the violence become so common that we no longer feel the shock factor?

Do we lessen the crime by validating the act?

Have we created a “blameless society”. where personal accountability is never a factor?

Have we become more concerned about the criminal and less of the victims?

Have we grown as a society by accepting violence and pretending there‘s nothing we can do to stop it?

A Personal Note

"The more I see in the news, the darker I tend to become. I know society can change, but I wonder if it really wants to. It's easier to put the kids in front of the TV babysitter, or let them become engrossed in a video game, than it is to relate to them on a level they can understand. I believe that good will triumph over evil in the end, but how far in the future are we looking? We see hints that there is good around, but why are they only hints and not the norm? I can't answer these questions. Can you?"

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