Many young children have been pronounced dead,
Parents filled with dread,
An unprecedented attack targeting the young,
All they wanted was to hear their favourite songs being sung,
Mainstream media putting out messages from families missing loved ones,
Worried they've not heard from their daughters or sons,
And the rest of us,
We sit and discuss,
How we're overwhelmed with fear,
Wondering how anyone could think this atrocity was a good idea,
How can anybody with any heart,
Tear all of those precious lives apart,
These extremists need to be taken out,
But don't condemn people you don't know anything about,
No matter our religion or race we need to remember we're all against terror,
If you think all Muslims think this way you've made a serious error,
Your doctors, your taxi drivers,
They helped the survivors,
We need to keep one another safe and strong,
Make sure your neighbours know they belong,
Sadly we can never bring the departed back,
Yet the one thing we can take from this attack,
Is the love and solidarity that's come to light,
People flooding in to blood donation centres must be quite a sight,
The hotels taking in children on their own,
A homeless man ensuring a woman doesn't die alone,
Taxi drivers offering people free rides to get them back home safe and sound,
The love that came in the aftermath is astoundingly profound,
So please mourn for those we lost in this disaster,
Yet remember how everyone came together - remember that together our love is vaster.