Tragedy in Madison

A gunshot shatters the air silence falls apart Every stolen life leaves a shadow on the heart Why do we choose weapons over a tender hand Why does hatred thrive where love could stand Love is the answer we've failed to defend Yet violence teaches us to distrust and pretend Guns don't protect they only deepen our fears While love though fragile mends what disappears In darkness reason shines its brightest light When pain reveals the hardest truths in sight The hands that build cannot choose to destroy Only by releasing hate can we find true joy Who made us believe that war is the way When the pain we cause chains us each day Peace isn't found in steel or fire's embrace It lives in seeing ourselves in another's face No more lives silenced by hands without care No more broken hearts left gasping for air Let us learn from the tears let faith rise again Only love can heal what hatred claims in vain An ordinary day can change everything we know If we choose love over the divides that grow Bullets will never answer the questions we keep Only love can restore what hatred buried deep