Why build a camp for children
In a flash flood zone?
And why fire the weather researchers
Who might have warned them what was coming?
Why mock the role of science,
Which so often has saved lives?
When did expediency, complacency,
And greed become the new religion
While empathy and compassion were left behind?
I hold my sobbing daughter in my arms
Gazing out into the rain
As we weep together for children
And parents everywhere.
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