How Many

I must confess, I am no parent, I do not know the pain parents go through when losing their blood.

I must confess, I did not watch the news of Sandy Hook, I talked about it with my mom on gchat briefly, I must confess I looked it up on Google News afterwards. 26 dead, 20 children.

I must confess it did not become something I could feel until my cousin said this: how many of them bought their baby gifts for Christmas, how many of them fought that morning? how many must regret their last words, or wish it had been something meaningful.

How many more parents must go through this or more, because we can’t learn to help those who need it before they do something reckless and inhumanly cruel, how many more children must we lose before we learn to take away the tools of those troubled and past the point of no return?

How much more innocence must our children lose must we lose before we all learn?