Blacksburg

We each take a bullet when an innocent is murdered.
We each take a slap when an epithet is hurled.
We can look into the eyes of our neighbor
and never know anything beyond their color.
We can plan our day with naivete of habit,
but, everyone else is planning theirs.
The president said you were in the wrong place
at the wrong time, but I disagree.
You were in the right place
you were there as you should have been.
It was the malevolence that intruded,
an anguished soul with no voice of his own,
a tormented soul that needed help to cry.