On the fifth year anniversary of the Newtown tragedy, a repost to remind us of the challenges that still remain.
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Fear and folly in tandem come,
And in their sway we have often run,
From what’s true today to yesterday’s vision,
Though that which was is no more the mission.
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So how long do we stand,
Blind,
As the evidence mounts?
How long do we sit,
Still,
Before the body counts?
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Sowing and reaping the violence prone,
X-box, vampires, a society grown,
Increasingly assorted, beyond scope of a center,
No common cause, each citizen dissenter.
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Yet innocence once ours,
at least so we believed,
E pluribus unum,
at birth thus conceived.
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