Rampage

Every time he watches the evening news
they sensationalize stories of women abused
with one more report of a woman found dead
and he goes on a rampage in his head.

Groups are formed but here are his questions:
Why are the women the ones who shelter battered women?
Where are the men to protect them from such dread?
again he goes on a rampage in his head.

Until our leaders stand up and defend women as they should,
until the injustice is gone and replaced with pure good,
until the last man of violence against women is dead,
he will go on a rampage in his head.

Note: this poem was written to give a voice the words and phrases of a truly gentle man who is tired of the abuse that he sees women suffer at the hands of violent men. It is my avenue for his lovely view of the world to be heard with the hope that others will follow his words of peace and that, someday, joining together, we will be able to stop the rampage that troubles his kind thoughts and gentle mind.