Tragedy is only a step away
As our children leave the house today
Apathetic parents switch
From mindless sitcoms
To the media blitz
Sensationalistic topics rule
While beauty hides beneath the cloud
Daughters absorb the pain at school
Of twisted minds beneath a shroud
Of a permissive nation
With a communal blind eye
Of men and boys
Prepared to die
A silent scream
From tortured dreams
Cries out to us all
For loving arms
To catch their fall
For time away
From our busy day
For conversation
Eye to eye
For guidance in
These desperate times
We all must rise
And face the day
And help our children
Learn to pray
And give them rest
When they are spent
And help them grow
By changing our world
By waking ourselves
To the result
Of our communal negligence
And shaking off
Jaded intellectualism
For apathetic parents can switch
As our children leave the house tomorrow
And when tragedy becomes two steps away
We will have begun
To heal the sorrow