Someone once told me that,
“Everything happens for a reason”
And I believed them,
Until Friday.

You see, I’ve come to know,
Whole-heartedly, that I personally...
I will always be
Left wanting more-

There will inevitably
Always be certain things that
I will just never be able
To grasp, or comprehend.

The problem I’m having-
Is when, as a Country, the day
We can say we understand
Something as heartbreaking-

Inhuman, and wretched
As what took place
At that Elementary school
on Friday morning-

Is the day that we
will finally shed every
last bit of humanity
we’ve been holding onto.

The horrifying part is,
That day isn’t far
From today. I’m afraid
for the future of us all.