It’s been a handful of months since the Las Vegas shooting, and for some reason I am compelled to share my perspective on it. A day or two after this heartbreaking event I felt the urge to write a poem to vent my own personal frustrations.
I shortly realized after writing, that the truth is event’s like Vegas happen around the world all of the time without most of us even being aware of them occurring. If you resonate with what I have said in this intro, read the poem below and let me know your thoughts on the Vegas shooting and what we can learn from tragedies like this one.
We are lost in a void of disassociation
So worked up on our own self annihilation
Creating disease and war, Creating fear and horror
What if the tragedies we witness were suborned ?
Do you know the truth behind the lies
Or do crave to claim your opinion for a prize?
Do you know the history behind the scene
Or do you just desire to express our suffering?
I can’t take the heartache, I just can’t ingest the lies
How can we claim to know the truth of what we didn’t witness with our own eyes
I can’t take the heartache, I just can’t ingest the lies
The news will pit us, against us if you haven’t realized
So Pray, meditate, be one with your infinite grace
So Pray, meditate, be one with your own race
So Pray, meditate, be one in this sacred place
So Pray, meditate, be one, say thanks
To the families and victims of this world’s pain I pray
To the people who lost their lives along the way
This isn’t something new, this happens every day
Yet location points of pain seem to sway
From the middle east, to the plains of the Dakota’s
From Mexico, Puerto Rico, Florida & unknown
Las Vegas is just a sign that we need change,
So before we point the finger and blame
We must ask ourselves, how could “I” be better today
-Skylar G. Lysaker
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