My nights are troubled. What must it be like for the families in Uvalde? Although our politicians don’t seem to be losing any sleep.
rain shows up sad
like the ache beneath the shadow
of my black moon dreams
sleep runs away
who are you I ask
as tongues fiddle
in a language that worships death
the day begins
with bloodshot eyes
K. 
We did have a lot of the same words–the asking, shadows, death, and moon. We are living in dark times.
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It feels darker and darker every day.
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This feels true. We’ve become a culture that drinks death and is still thirsty for more…
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It’s overwhelming. And very unhealthy in so many ways.
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It would be astonishing if the Oracle wasn’t incandescent about what has happened. The fiddler has become an ambiguous element in this one, a serpent.
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I feel so helpless. I can’t stop thinking about the police who not only wouldn’t go in themselves because they “didn’t want to get shot”, but tasered and handcuffed parents wanting to go in and save the children. Luckily, once again, they were filmed and had to backtrack their lies about what happened.
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As people have pointed out, it rather knocks on the head the theory of the good guy with the gun. They didn’t want to get hurt? Jesus.
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I know.
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HI Kerfe, I am sorry you are feeling so bad after this horrible week. There are bad people in society and the people who elect to represent us don’t always do a good job, but there are also lots of really good people out there like you and me. We do our best to be kind and show love to the world and it does make a difference.
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You are right that it’s not the majority supporting this madness. But unfortunately, the way our political system is set up, the minority can be and stay in charge. There are more guns than people in the United States and none of us is safe.
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Yes, I know how your political system works.
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You know, we as a people, don’t have to wait for politicians to lead the way. Each individual in the land could turn their weapons in on one identified day and we would be so much better off. Yes, some morons would hide them, but still…
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The people I know who own guns would never voluntarily surrender them. Even if by a miracle a law were passed requiring it many would hide them. In my experience there is no way to even discuss the issue with them.
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I know 😦
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It is a dark language indeed that worships death!
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We seem to have more than our share…
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This articulates what most of us feel. I live so far away but every time there is a shooting, especially involving children, I feel horrified and angry.
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I am so sick of “thoughts and prayers”. As my grandmother used to say, “God helps those who help themselves”. And we do nothing, over and over again.
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I get that. Platitudes can be so sickening when no action takes place.
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I feel your pain, all this senseless killing in schools, war, dv, etc are so pointless … when will it ever end! the blood spill art is fitting … hope you get some sleep soon
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Thanks Kate. The sleep comes and goes. The killings just keep coming.
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sadly they do, we never learn and if the laws never change there is nothing to discourage such violence 😦
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A new mass shooting today in Oklahoma…
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yes, sadly we hear it all …
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sleep was already foreign. now, waking with headaches and sorrow that isn’t even my own, when I have a surfeit of that already. strange days, these are. strange days ~
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And getting stranger it seems. And more sorrowful.
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