Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 10. Tear Tracks

I can't agree more with your cries de coeur. Why indeed?

Pleadings of the heart.

I wonder if it is because we have made it easy to kill so many at one instance. In my youth domestic killings occured but they were usually by far more intimate means, a knife or bludgeon, and at arms reach. Now as with so many things in our "advanced" society we can reach out and touch so many more in but a moment.

Tears and rage are surely not enough. Maybe not even love. Some of us are moved to action and do all we can, and it still feels like we’ve done nothing at all.  

I feel you Parker.. I agree with Val.. sorry these had to be penned. 

 i agree with Val and Def, well penned, just sorry that had to be done. the world hurts and we cry

2 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

Brilliantly written, although I am sorry they had to be penned in the first place.      

Thank you. You're very kind. I could not agree with you more.

2 hours ago, northie said:

I can't agree more with your cries de coeur. Why indeed?

I only wish there was a good answer. Thank you for reading and responding.

2 hours ago, dughlas said:

Pleadings of the heart.

I wonder if it is because we have made it easy to kill so many at one instance. In my youth domestic killings occured but they were usually by far more intimate means, a knife or bludgeon, and at arms reach. Now as with so many things in our "advanced" society we can reach out and touch so many more in but a moment.

Jocelyn Elders, onetime Surgeon General, likened gun violence to a public health crisis, an epidemic - a public disease. You have hit upon part of the pathology, certainly. Thank you for reading and responding to this.

1 hour ago, Defiance19 said:

 

Tears and rage are surely not enough. Maybe not even love. Some of us are moved to action and do all we can, and it still feels like we’ve done nothing at all.  

 

I feel you Parker.. I agree with Val.. sorry these had to be penned. 

Thank you, Def. I appreciate your reading these and responding to them. We do what we can. A friend of mine holds out the hope each time that this will really be the last time. May he be right, for once.

1 hour ago, mogwhy said:

 i agree with Val and Def, well penned, just sorry that had to be done. the world hurts and we cry

Thank you, Moggy. Our tears must strengthen our resolve to find solutions. Thanks for reading and responding.

Such sadness... such violation... such pain... pleas for sanity fall on deaf ears and politics reign over common sense... I am bereft... you speak for me, Parker.

It's sad and horrific. And I'll say it again: Gun Control. I don't why you, as in so many Americans fear it.  More guns and more armed people are not the answer.  Your poems are beautifully written. 

5 hours ago, MichaelS36 said:

It's sad and horrific. And I'll say it again: Gun Control. I don't why you, as in so many Americans fear it.  More guns and more armed people are not the answer.  Your poems are beautifully written. 

You and I agree, Michael. I only wish this last time was the last time. Then I could write of happier things. 

6 hours ago, Headstall said:

Such sadness... such violation... such pain... pleas for sanity fall on deaf ears and politics reign over common sense... I am bereft... you speak for me, Parker.

You and I are both bereft, our peace utterly broken. Thank you for reading and for your response. 

Wallow in violence, glory in guns. Until the common man see the futility in owning them and stops seeing them as good, nothing with change. Our poems will not change anything, and that is the sad fact. But if poems could, these certainly would, Parker. xo

4 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

Wallow in violence, glory in guns. Until the common man see the futility in owning them and stops seeing them as good, nothing with change. Our poems will not change anything, and that is the sad fact. But if poems could, these certainly would, Parker. xo

It makes me sad to know how right you are, tim. Perhaps our poems change no minds; that true, too, I think. Your kind words are encouraging, nonetheless. But maybe poems can let my tears flow faster, so I can get to the work of trying to mending things sooner.  Thank you for reading and for your comments.

nor error, Parker. Only laments at how terribly right you are

6 hours ago, mayday said:

nor error, Parker. Only laments at how terribly right you are

Thank you. These events occur far too regularly. Many factors are at work, certainly.  But they grieve my soul. 

Just now, Parker Owens said:

 

Thank you. These events occur far too regularly. Many factors are at work, certainly.  But they grieve my soul. 

there was a time when such events were a "prerogative" of America, alas, no more, but even though they occur also this side of the ocean, they are the exception here, whereas they seem to be the rule in the US - I have given up divining the reasons and factors at work, it seems rather fruitless. After Sandy Hook and its hollow aftermath, it seems there is nothing that can be done to prevent the like "events". Once you accept children being sacrificed to a myth, anything goes...

Thanks for your comments. I suppose weeping and lamentation must give way to action, and then those of us who weep now must march later, if only to support those who have died so needlessly.