Too many women are murdered in this world
45,817 between 1996 and 2020 in the USA
mostly by men they knew or had loved.
God Almighty, why does this have to be,
and how can any man be so evil and so
cowardly as to kill the gentler, fairer sex?
I don’t believe in a hell, but this makes me
wish there is one to send these monsters to.
And I hope all the women they murdered
automatically go to a place like a heaven
regardless of what kind of lives they led.
And if they go to such a blissful paradise
instantly when murdered, I hope and pray
that the way they died won’t even matter,
will be an insignificant memory in a world
of unending happiness and eternal peace.
Bob Boyd