Alucard from Hellsing (Best I could find)

(I wrote this one way back in 2013.  Kind of messed up that I can’t remember the incident that triggered the poem, but I can connect it to so many since that day.  I still ask this same question at times even though I know the answers is ‘yes’.)

I saw an article
Posted on the web
It spoke of murder
On a horrific scale
A man deranged and dark
Slaughtered
A group of innocents
Whose time should not have come

I broke my promise
To avoid the comments
Because they used to make me mad
Idiots behind their screens
Never thinking before typing
Yet I thought it would be different
I wanted to see the compassion
For those that went away

I should have kept the promise
For my anger rose quite fast
Political rhetoric
Religious fervor
Atheist victory cheers
Gun demonization
Gun worship
They fill the comments full

I stare at my screen
Amazed and disgusted
Having to search hard
To find a polite post
A prayer for those who passed
Good wishes to the families
I seek something positive
So I do not despise my species

Do we miss the point?
Ignoring the truth of events
People have died
A human monster’s evil act
Has caused such pain and loss
Yet these fools start fights
Over gods and men
Who are praying for the fallen