" Today....Aurora.....Tomorrow.....Anywhere "

“ Today…………..Aurora…….

…..Tomorrow………….Anywhere”

O7/20/12

“Today, Aurora…Tomorrow,…Anywhere”

I

Just past midnight, of a new—though—ordinary day.  Aurora, city of mountains, evergreens, forests.  Cloud-brushed city, you were sleeping unaware of the monster plotting mayhem, murder.

II

Yet you were wakened from a dreamless sleep, Oh fair Aurora, disturbed by gunshots, chaos, screaming.

III

Friday, and ordinary day, as usually they are, be quick, Aurora, for there is horror here, and smoke, and victims.

IV

Perhaps in your delicate contemplation, most noble Aurora, that you did not suspect fear and terror, people running, wounded, bleeding.

V

Outstretch your arms to them, oh delicate Aurora, let them find some quick refuge from a madman’s savage desires.

VI

Oh weeping Aurora, yes your tears are honest shed.  The quiet peace has been sundered by the pain and anguish, and sight of spattered blood.

VII

Find out, oh wise Aurora how one killer chose where to go, and not who to kill, but, everyone.

VIII

Please pray for them, oh silent, weeping Aurora.  Because of this, a baby has been killed, possibly even as it slept, and more…eleven more?

IX

Oh humbled, wise Aurora, for there is pain and suffering—still—from Columbine, and elsewhere across the globe.

X

We will pray with you, oh mourning Aurora, for prayers and tears and grief, for the victims, and for ourselves.

XI

Oh quiet, saddened, Aurora, for we have become afraid; one maniac can so easily erase a life, leaving a void, which can never be filled up with enough tears.

End

‘Zahc’/Charles