Good Sams w/AR-15s To the Rescue

We may never know what deranged voices were swirling through Kelley’s head

Must have been troubling beyond belief as he left 26 people and one fetus dead

A mind can absorb only so much hate before it will burst

A tidal waver of uncontrollable need to sate its deadly angry thirst

The grandmother of his wife was in that church worshipping in a pew

One of the twenty-six victims on that Sunday that Kelley slew

Mission of revenge accomplished if he could not find his ex mother in law to slay

Why kill all the others on that fateful bloody day?

Mysteries that we humans will never be able to demystify

Only sadness and tears wondering why they also had to die

Like all cowards when confronted by a nonevil counterforce, he had to run

Two good Sams armed not waiting for cops to arrive doing what had to be done

Shot Kelley twice in the leg and chest and at 95 miles an hour did chase

Forcing him off the road into a tree’s thick trunk solid base

Only to find this coward had shot himself in the head

And was now very, very  dead

But for these two good Sams if Kelley would have more AR-15 magazines

There would have been 46 not 26 dead at this bloody crime scene

Hard to keep one’s faith in the face of such slaughter strong and secure

When questioning how God looking down could let this slaughter occur

 But we must and must rise about the grieving doubt

Rise up, dust off and prepare for the next with evil bout

© November 6, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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