Roll Call (Sound Off)

Not even a week past Independence Day and just look at the wake of violence, of murder, of hate!

We are born to die,
but first we are actually supposed to live:

Infants and elderly, parents and children,
travellers and home-bound, scientists and wildlife,
students and teachers, shoppers and merchants,
performers and attendees, players and workers,
police force, and fire-fighters, judges and juries,
homeless and wealthy, fortunate and needy,
doctors and nurses, flight attendants and pilots,
civilians and military, first responders and injured.

Black, white, red, brown or yellow, mixed race or ‘pure’,
native or ex-pat, indigenous or migrant,
Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic, Pagan, Pantheist or Jew
all deserve to live in safety before their ultimate finish.

No one anywhere should have the right to determine when and how another ends.

We may be born to die, but we have taught ourselves to usurp Death’s purview.

This has got to end before we retrogress and guarantee Humanity’s untimely End!

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 8 July 2016