Lori Ann Day

SOME CRUEL JOKE

I wish that I could wake up from this hate filled dream,
and that you would tell me that it was all a nightmare.
I keep looking into your eyes with disbelief, wanting
you to tell me to go back to sleep.
I want you to laugh out loud at me for being so naive,
and believing you with eye wide open, and terror in my soul.

I hope that I have misunderstood, or that you have momentarily gone mad.
Tell me it is April Fools, and that this was all some cruel joke.
Apologize and say, “Sweet Dreams,” and let me go back to sleep.
Tell me that no one was really killed,
and that no child saw its mother die in this “love” filled world.