The world weeps and rages

A story we have heard before

Repeated throughout history

Wounds that have never been healed

Excuses and blame

Stand in place of accountability

Always a scapegoat

Waiting for the money men

To point their fingers

And shake in their righteousness

Indignation a sham

Covering power grabs

And the hunger for money

As people die

At the hands of so-called protectors

As careful blindness fails to see

The lasting horror

That tears the fabric that once made a society

While our children

Live without hope – Caroline A. Slee