Death - Did You Hear The News? Poem by Paul Warren

Did you hear the news?
As everyone gave their views
Do you know what happened?
It was his son who used the weapon
Stabbed him in the chest and back
Then he ran off into the black

There was silence then
While we all tried to comprehend
Why a son would do this to his own father
I am sure that given a choice now he’d rather
Not have done such a violent act
And we would have been spared this fact

So what happens now?
The seeds of the tragedy he did plough
Have us all wondering how we’ll cope
When all is lost without any hope
Of making proper sense of this
In the loss of Phil Walsh whom we’ll miss

© Paul Warren Poetry