i have no words

[miak]

i have no words
no words to console
no words to mourn
no words to grieve

i have no way
to measure
the loss
whether it is an infant
a child playing at the beach
a scientist
a health worker
an activist
a soldier
a militant
a terrorist
a drug trafficker

i know to well
that they are
someone's child
someone's friend

i only have
tears
that flow
weeping
for lives taken
so easily
with a press of a button
a squeeze of the trigger

i have one word left
a word i borrow from a friend
and that word is
No.

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this poem was edited after i found out that Singapore executed 2 drug traffickers on the morning of 18 July 2014 when i wrote this poem.