Sometimes
Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail.
Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.
A people sometimes will step back from war,
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.
Sometimes our best intentions do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.
— Sheenagh Pugh
hecatedemeter 
My husband has run 3 marathons. He is running the New York marathon this year. My son and I were scheduled to attend. We are not attending now. My husband and I believe that it just isn’t safe. It’s horrible and I hate making that decision but I know once that day comes I will still have this feeling. Horrible senseless tragedy.