The country mourns its loss
Of memory
Of service
Of civility
A November noon in Dallas
An April rain in Memphis
An April bomb in Oklahoma City
A slaughtered school in Colorado
A September morn in Manhattan
A shattered morn in Tucson
Shudders the nation
We are shaken
Lessons learned and forgotten
The scars from each grow callous
We are hardened...
Inured against the touch
Of the better angels of our nature
Searching for an accusation
Longing for explanation
Yearning for a way
We are America
When we find
What is best in each other.
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