There’s too much deadly randomness
in this world
a woman taking a walk in a park in New York
a tree limb falls on her and kills her
people dying in random auto accidents
every day
a child playing in his parent’s home
killed by a stray by bullet from a street gun fight
a high school football player dies while playing football
an unknown, congenital heart problem
a young woman stabbed on a subway by a psychopath
she didn’t know
a middle age woman with two power dogs
one day mauled and murdered by them
an old person slips and falls in a bathroom
dies from the fall
a family having a peaceful lunch in a fast food restaurant
one of them shot to death in a mass shooting killing many
people who never thought what had randomly happened
to others would happen to them
and these unexpected, never imagined, random
deaths go on and on
how I hate the deadly randomness in this unpredictable
world.
Bob Boyd