' Murder by Surprise '

I wrote this poem after the mass shooting at the 'Batman' premier in Colorado.

Mass murder, not again,
Has this town even had time to mend?

Brings back memories of ' Columbine,'
another white man has lost his mind;

71 shot and 12 are dead,
all because he lost his head;

They say he was a brilliant man,
with a scholarship given to just 6 in all the land;

3 young men in the theater that night,
guarded their girls with all their might,

They threw their bodies in the sight,
where it was bullets they bite;

There was a woman shot 4 times in the head,
she beat the odds, she's not dead;

They come at us with such surprise,
we can only pray it is not our demise.............