After the Murder of Alex Pretti
When you cannot think for yourself,
You toe the party line,
Thinking it helps you
to support those in power.
When you have no personal values,
You lie in the face of every truth,
Trying to convince everyone
How stupid they are.
When you care only for yourself,
You terrorize children, break families,
Label adults domestic terrorists
For recording your transgressions.
When you think not of right and wrong,
You manhandle citizens,
Beat them while on the ground,
Kill as they drive away or lay defenseless.
When you are unprincipled and brash,
You walk away on your cell phone,
Search a body for a holstered gun,
Go about life as others mourn deaths.
Having likely never loved,
Or been loved in your sorry,
Pathetic life, you survive
Until the day you are cast aside.
Betrayed, hurt, and alone,
Shunned by fellow Americans,
You still won't understand
What you did that was so wrong.
Unenlightened, you will die.
And we, wondering just a moment
If we should feel differently—
We will rejoice.
Author: Edward Dzitko
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