Survive Three Combat Tours Only To Be Killed Biking On Colorado Springs Street

Sadly, life on this planet is never a sure long term bet

A lesson too often we humans are prone to forget

Another senseless tragedy this time in Colorado Springs

A decorated Army vet who survived three combat tours  in Iraq avoiding all the bullets combat brings

Was bicycling in broad daylight on a quiet Colorado Springs street

When a shooter struggling with alcoholism shot him dead from his seat

Meyers plead for his life and for reasons known only to God his pleas fell on deaf ears

Meyers’ two sons now have no father, only memories and tears

Sadly, no witnesses were armed to the shooter pulling the trigger prevent

And before he killed to Hell this shooter to quickly have sent

The shooter was not finished with his urge of causing more death fulfill

Walking calmly less than a mile to a sober living house and two more victims kill

Two women in rehab from pills and alcohol on a porch sitting

Most likely conversing on the joys and hardships of quitting

Shot down while trying to get their lives from drugs and alcohol back

Once again, the shooter was not wounded or captured only by police shot dead

We are once again wondering what could have been going through his head

Alcohol demons that he could not expel

That somehow the need to take lives him compel

© November 4, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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