The Very Trees Cry Out...

[kpete]

The photo is from facebook page of one of the dead young adults, Yusor Abu-Salha. She wrote “All done and graduated from my beloved NC State University”

The young husband was in second year of dentistry school.

The shooter is in custody without bail. The pettiness of the seeming interaction between all four and the grotesque solution the shooter chose is beyond words.

PROPER PRAYERS

As my grandmother Katerin
would pray over her beads
about heinous tragedy;
‘Three bright stars
will hang in the arms
of the trees forever
over that now holy ground.’

My father would then mutter
over his sharpening of knives,
‘Too many stars
over too many trees already
across the world.
Far less stars,
far more humanity.’

Let the humane we are called to, continue with us. May we all hand that strong bright red line of calling to those who come after us, as those before us have handed that strong boundary line to us for safekeeping, as they flew from the planet.

http://themoderatevoice.com/202685/trees-cry-no-no-no-three-muslim-students-murdered/

[riversedge]

1. BitterSweet