I am like a star that refuses to shine,
or you could liken me to a plant
that just won’t grow,
worn out from endless battles
fought over my skin.
Is there no final curtain call
on a show that will never end?
These are my burdens of despair,
drooping my shoulders
and graying my hair.
Cops still shooting us down,
drugs plaguing what’s left
of hoods yet to be gentrified.
Siren-filled nights,
as gunfire brings home,
a message of cruelty,
inhumanity and torn apart lives.
I look for answers,
but all I have is one question,
“WHY?”
Written by,
Shelby I. Courtland
©2018 Shelby I. Courtland
Sometimes, I am so filled with despair over the suffering that is relentless, that it suffocates me. To have a heart that hurts so much to the point that it makes me want to just scream. Why are we devolving into debased creatures who can kill each other without even blinking? And it begs the question for those who believe in evolution, “Did we ever really ‘evolve’?” When I look around, I can honestly say, “No, we did not!” For surely, what we see is irrefutable proof that we certainly did not! And if anyone should be so disturbed as to believe that these were ‘mercy killings’…..just don’t even go there.
The blog that preceded this one is partly responsible for this post and then, add this into the equation and my heart is heavy with despair!
Homeless men are being gunned down on the street in Las Vegas
The video is chilling. James Edgar Lewis is sleeping under a Las Vegas freeway when a dark-colored SUV passes by. Seconds later, a man wearing a dark top emerges from the vehicle and shoots Lewis twice in the head before fleeing.
There is no struggle, no fight. Lewis never even appears to wake up.
“It’s basically an execution,” said Lt. Dan McGrath of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.
This is the second such killing in the Las Vegas area.
On January 29, Brian Clegg was shot and killed, also while sleeping, in front of a business on a busy street.
Two lost souls sleeping on the streets, with as many horrors and problems that entails and then, finally, from sheer exhaustion, more than likely, finding some relief in sleep, only to be shot dead.
I look for answers,
but all I have is one question,
“WHY?”
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