Mental Deficiency

Is there a mental deficiency within my brain?

I know I should feel absolute pain

in the suffering of others,

that I should feel absolute pain

in the pain of others.

And yes,

I do!

However,

the horrors that assail us daily,

that deluge our senses

with untold pain

with untold cruelty

with untold reason.

Awakening, what will today bring?

Awakening,

first conscious thought may well be:

What is the horror this day will bring?

A bomb blowing a government building

to smithereens killing hundreds?

Planes flying into buildings killing thousands?

A hurricane blowing the ocean into a city killing

and displacing thousands?

A tsunami washing cities away killing

and displacing thousands?

An earthquake destroying a country killing

and displacing thousands?

A mother drowning her children?

A father killing his children?

A rampaging lunatic killing all within sight?

A fetus torn from the ripped stomach

of an expectant mother?

What is the horror of this day?

What is the daily horror this day will bring,

...that tomorrow will bring?

I know I should feel absolute pain

in the suffering of others,

that I should feel absolute pain

in the pain of others,

and I do...

yet...

In a strange way I feel detached.

In a strange way I feel my mind

overloaded with the new horror

that assails me daily,

that deluge my senses

that,

in a strange way

leaves me feeling detached

and not as sympatric

as I know I should feel

leaving me to ask,

is there a mental deficiency within my brain?