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Nightmare
Contributed by
positivelypurple
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Tuesday, 17th April 2007 @ 04:28:39 PM in AEST
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AmericanTragedy
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One foot out the door
Alarm has been raised
Smoke has filled the air
A spark from the outside in
Deathly sound
Screams my name
A trillion cells
In the name of peace
Love Horror Surrender
Solitude
Cries in the sun light clear day
Creeping in fallen down
Why…
I don’t know this world anymore
Won’t someone help
Wake us from this horrible nightmare
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positivelypurple
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2007-04-17 16:28:39]
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Re: Nightmare
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by rhymeandreason on
Tuesday, 17th April 2007 @ 05:20:49 PM AEST
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It's completely understandable how you feel.
It reminds us all just how fragile, life is and how unpredictable is each day of each and every person on the planet.
I would ask that you hold on to this aspect of the tragic events that took place yesterday in Virginia.
There are approx. 300 million of us in this country. That is a number of people too unbelievably astronomical to comprehend with out a visual aid of some sort. (like how many thousands of rail road box cars full of ping pong balls it would take to reach that number.)
300 million of us and it is years, and sometimes decades before someone this sick, and this determined to randomly hurt as many people as he can creates this much misery and sorrow for so many people.
That is hard to remember at moments like this But extremely important to your sense that the world you live in hasn't grown a lot worse overnight. I mean it is bad enough already.
I take hope from the knowledge that out of so many millions and millions and millions of us that what happened yesterday hasn't had a close to comparable number of people that suffered such a tragic end since the 1964 Univ. of Texas gunman in the school clock tower.
Yes there are lots of bad people that are doing horrible things to people everyday. But out of 300 million of us, we can go years without this disturbed, and hate filled person having a like minded "kindred spirit."
It is so easy to start living a life that is less open. And more mistrustful of anyone that you haven't met yet.
That is almost everybody.
We internalize this tragedy nation wide as if it happened right down the road from us. Because we get our news "as it happens" in real time now.
I'm filled with sadness for the families. The loss of life is heartbreaking. The actions of this person are horrendous.
It would be doubley so for all of us if these kinds of extremely rare acts makes us less open to living life, interacting with others and prone to eyeing everyone who didn't grow up in our neighborhood with suspicion.
We are all going to be awhile getting beyond this latest example of mans inhumanity to man.
rhymeandreason
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Re: Nightmare
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by BEE on
Tuesday, 17th April 2007 @ 11:43:23 PM AEST
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I love this right very true. Whosknows about life anymore good write.
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Re: Nightmare
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by Crow on
Wednesday, 18th April 2007 @ 10:14:50 PM AEST
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| I can`t imagine how it scares our children we send out in the world..excellent write, and read..Vincent |
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Re: Nightmare
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by Crow on
Wednesday, 18th April 2007 @ 10:14:50 PM AEST
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| I can`t imagine how it scares our children we send out in the world..excellent write, and read..Vincent |
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