Run for Life and Death ...

Blog 265:

'Bostonians' all for a day ...
Revelers, visitors, residents
Families and friends
Embrace and celebrate
Their Patriots of past and present …

All jubilantly gather
To run for freedom
To run for health
To run for community togetherness …

Only to be bewildered by exploding bombs
Only to be shocked and stumped
Only to be confounded by injuries and death
At the finish line of 2013 Boston Marathon!

What sick mind would want to hurt joy?
What deep hatred could want an end to exultation?
What menacing thought could concoct a heinous crime?

'Bostonians' all for a day ...
Revelers, visitors, residents
Families and friends
Cry and mourn 
Their Patriots of present and past …