Sense and Senselessness...

When you're in the readiness center
preparing to go to war...
No one expects a war zone
to break out all around you.
While you're trained
to recognize the enemy...
No one expects the enemy
will be outfitted a uniform like everyone else's.

Without warning a routine afternoon
is transformed by violence...
and lives are taken,
and bodies are wounded
and friends are lost, and families are left...
to grieve,
to hurt,
to suffer
and to wonder, "Why?"

Plenty of people (including me)
will struggle to wrap our minds around the tragedy.
But explanations are too thin.
Emotions are too deep.
Wounds are too ragged.
The loss is too great.

Cain is alive and well.
Able's blood cries out.
And there's still no way
to make sense out of senslessness.