I Can't Stop Weeping...

[WiffenPoof]

I almost lost it during Obama's comments...but held on. Then it suddenly hit me...it sunk into my head. They were just babies...just innocent babies. There is no God. If there is, I do not wish to have anything to do with him. The screen is somewhat blurry and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

Just babies.

Paige

[Xipe Totec]

1. Death took flight early,

Death took flight early,
and early came the dawn of morn,
and early it spills upon the ground.

I do not forgive death for loving you,
or forgive life for its distraction,
or forgive the ground,
or forgive oblivion.

With bare hands I raise a storm,
of stones, bolts and strident axes,
thirsting and hungering for catastrophe.

With bare teeth I want to dig the ground,
and move the dirt part by part,
in dry and furious bites.

I want to mine the earth until I find you,
to kiss your noble skull,
unbind your body and return you,
to my garden and my fig tree.


Excerpt from Elegy, by Miguel Hernández

[WiffenPoof]

7. Thanks For Posting This...

Somehow it made me feel better.

P

[JaneyVee]

2. Same here, Paige. I've been in a constant state of fighting back tears after crying several times

today.

Edit: I cried uncontrollably during first minute of Obama's press conference.

[WiffenPoof]

8. Believe Me...

I was moved by what the President said. I'm usually one who hds it together initially. It just seems like the full weight of this event hit me all at once.

Paige

[kentuck]

3. It's heart-breaking.

It's beyond comprehension.

[badhair77]

4. I cried all afternoon.

I sat with a big pile of Kleenex next to me. Obama's words were beautiful and summed up my feelings well. Then they'd show those small children and I just wanted to hug them. Now I'm just exhausted.

[Ilsa]

5. I was driving when I heard, and started crying.

Spouse and I rarely talk during workday, but we did today.

The hard part was telling my 13 year old son what happened without scaring him too much. he was really upset about it being an elementary school.

Those sweet kids were looking forward to Christmas and Santa Claus.

[WiffenPoof]

9. Hold your son...

...extra close tonight.

P

[elfin]

6. Still crying here

Lost it completely while talking with my son about his 4 year old adorable daughter, who longs to be 5 and go on the bus to all day Kindergarten.

She is home sick, which is worrisome a bit, but good in that she is not hearing anything about this at her pre-school or at her media savvy home.

I am a geezer and this is so out of my previous reality when you sent your kids to school and NEVER ONCE doubted they would be safe.

This is more horrific and somehow so much different that if nothing corrective happens, we are lost.

[Nay]

10. As the grandma to a sweet little kindergartener who was at school today, I simply wept and

proceeded with my plan to get the little guy after school. We played, we colored and glued up some paper snowmen, and tomorrow we'll make Christmas cookies for the family. As I gave him his bath this evening, I couldn't stop kissing his little sweet head. He knows nothing of the shootings and I hope it stays that way.

No small kid should have these worries.

[rustydog]

11. I've seen a lot of gunshot victims in my life

and I learned how to deal with what I had seen. But the thought of little children, completely innocent in class, perhaps laughing, singing, learning...then terrorized by senseless gun violence.

Driving home thinking of the carnage I realized I was crying. What is wrong with us as a people? this is one seriously mixed up country.