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Understanding
Ruhama Mumin
October 10th, 2017
I don't understand
why it's not the time to speak.
I don't understand
how we can all hear the gunshots and screams,
and stay silent.
I don't understand
how we can feel our hands wet with tears and blood,
and bite our tongue.
I don't understand
how thoughts and prayers alone will stop bullets.
I don't understand
how we grieve for dead children at Sandy Hook,
and move on having done nothing.
I don't understand
how this is normal.
I don't understand
this country's disease.
What is controversial? A man killed innocent people mercilessly, let's try to stop that. Is that wrong? If so, I don't understand.
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