Death on the Radio - Pndrgn99 (for all the victims of Sandy Hook Elementay & their loved ones)

A Poem by Pndrgn99

A Poem created on the side of the road where I pulled over listening to the news coverage of shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school. It is for emotional consideration & is not judgement.

Death on the Radio - Pndrgn99

(for all the victims of Sandy Hook Elementry & their loved ones)

I heard the minute I turned on the radio
the coverage, with “no facts yet established”,
repeated over and over again.
Without details, the story, as empty as the classrooms
after the children, eyes closed, left the building.

The police went round and round the neighborhood with dogs
seeking potential secondary threats.
The radio circled, over and over again
around the story, empty of details, full of unspoken pain.

Guests and experts talked about the profiles of those who are "shooters"
asking what has been accomplished toward the prevention of what
has already happened... again.
As if somehow all their words might lessen the pain.

As if information, or distraction, or any sound, would be somehow preferable
to the stricken cries of parents whose children are gone.
Reporters spoke to children and parents, whose children had survived,
scarring the emptiness, pushing into secured spaces,
where tears, grief and horror continued undiminished, despite their invasion.

I sent my heart, wordlessly, tearfully, silently to join them.
and cried.