The Day We Held Them Closer

It was nothing but bottomless sorrow
when the news came
from a town that could have been
our own.

We tried to make sense
out of the darkness that descended the innocent,
the tenderest of youth,
the purest of heart.

But madness does not leave
answers in its wake.
Its swift destruction
and resulting anguish

is all we know with certainty.
We know it is evil,
in its truest form,
and our response

is to reach out to the ones we
hold dear and bring them closer,
channeling the light passed to us
by those who were taken away.

Love will triumph
Love will triumph


(c) 2012 by Vincent Lowry