All Saints

There are too many this year,
Too many we have to remember,
Too many we light a candle for,
Too many that have passed because...

We have been too weak, too weak
To speak out, to weak to pass the
Laws that would protect and today
We add another eighteen, if not more.

We must not only pray for the
Violence to end, for hate to not win.
We need to speak out for all of these
And the ones who will die this next year.

Living in the shadows of violence
And hate is not a legacy we should
Want to pass on to the seventh
Generation. No love, peace, hope
Born from the ashes of forgiveness.

This should be our action for all saints,
For all who have died in terror,
For all who have died helping,
For all who have died period.