On the Christmas
weekend of Peace on Earth Good Will to Men
The sounds
of gunfire in Chicago were heard again and again
41 people shot
and 11 mostly unknown victims in the news now waiting in the morgue
While on the
streets thugs are on the blood of innocents not sated as they engorge
The bounds
of civilization in Chicago have been torn completely asunder
The sounds
of Christmas carols or midnight mass drowned by the cracks of firearms deadly
thunder
In never
ending turf wars for drugs where the sanctity of life no longer has a sense of
wonder
Loss long
ago as body after body to grieving and fearful friends is lowered six feet
under
Where is the
outrage of the mayor secure in his heavily protected home?
While on the
streets the lawless quick to shoot without fear nightly roam
745 victims
mostly black killed by mostly blacks armed with a gun
Unarmed
victims unable to defend, unable to hide unable to run
More than
Los Angeles and New York combined
This is ground
zero for a city and society that has lost its mind
No wonder
Trump in the black inner cities picked up a surge in black votes
With a call for
law and order, jobs and schools and a willingness to time on those goals devote
While Rahm
Emanuel is like a modern day Caligula watching the victims of his city on the
streets die
His inaction
must mean in this life and death struggle to the victim his thumb is never pointed
up to the sky
But only
down to the bloodstained, tear stained body covered ground
Put him on
the streets without his bodyguards; in a New York second he would try to turn
this slaughter around.
© December 26, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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