I sit here alone in the darkness Alone with my thoughts In a few days Christmas A happy time, a time of joy But no Christmas now for twenty girls and boys What madness has assaulted this now sad world? Where a life can be taken so easily Without any thought or care Children, five six and seven WHY, WHY, WHY? Tell me now that there's a god Tell me why he let it happen No, I dont believe any more The slaughter of the innocents Has destroyed all I ever believed in Animals ****, yes but just for food But its only mans inhumanity to man That can destroy so easily
I wrote this poem after the Sandy Hook school shooting where so many innocent children died