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December's Horror
by Mark M Lichterman → (All Poetry by Mark M Lichterman)
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Originally presented on 3/13/11 titled "Today's Horror" Now revised and presented as "December's Horror"
___________________________________________________________________ December's Horror By Mark Lichterman Is there a mental deficiency within the circuitry 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 lack of reason. Awakening, what will today bring? Awakening, first conscious thought may well be: What is the horror this day will bring? A bomb throwing terrorist blowing a government building to smithereens killing hundreds? Planes once again flying into buildings killing thousands? A hurricane blowing the ocean into a city killing and displacing hundreds of thousands? A tsunami washing cities away killing and displacing hundreds of thousands? An earthquake destroying a country killing and displacing hundreds of thousands? A coal mine collapsing trapping and smothering dozens? A lunatic mother drowning her children? A lunatic 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, ...the daily horror 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, am I mentally deficient? Is there a mental deficiency within the circuitry of my brain? Not this time. This time, now with the wonton murder of twenty children, with the wonton murder of twenty babies along with the adults bent on protecting them the circuitry within my brain sparks with pain this time, now the circuitry within my brain sparks with pain sparks with sorrow sparks with sorrow for I know not what to do I know not what to say for in the face of such horror what can one say? ©December 17, 2012 / Mark M Lichterman

Reviewed by Kathleen McDonald

Reviewed on March 2, 2013

when these things happen they are appalling to us that can't understand how any one could do such a thing to another human being., Life is so fragile and it can be taken away so easily by someone that has no love in his heart for others.
hug
Kat

Reviewed by Laura Fall

Reviewed on December 18, 2012

This tragedy was very heartbreaking and as a mother with two children still in school as my youngest is only nine and then my granddaughter is six this has put a fear in me and this must end Laura

Reviewed by Ch'erie de Perrot

Reviewed on December 17, 2012

Weaponry. It has one function, to kill, lose the gun laws, lose some of the pain.
Excllent write Mark
Ch'erie

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton

It is the cancer of today's society, Mark, and although there is a cure, we don't have the people in power to accept that cure, so it will go on and on and . . . Even with a goddamn weapons ban.

Reviewed by Annabel Sheila

I think everyone is reacting exactly this way, my friend....one cannot comprehend what kind of mind could bring such senseless pain and horror upon children....sigh....it's heartbreaking.

Anna

Reviewed by Budd Nelson

nothing just nothing at all
budd