Orlando

​Orlando, oh Orlando,
my heart goes to you today.
No one has the right to take a single life
Who gave you the right to take fifty away?

You stole their love from us
You took life from fifty of us
You stole joy they brought to others.
How do we fill the void in lives
Of never returning husbands and wives
Of lost smiles of fathers and mothers.

You brought tragedy
Where there was no gravity
Where they sang, they danced and flew free.
You went where happiness showered them
You went to a place that empowered them
And, shot in the wild to cut their life tree.

Hate is in abundance today
Showing its greed every nook and every way
Oh, how badly humankind has gone astray.
Never has there been more fear
Never has it been more clear
That love, my dear, is the only way.

Orlando, oh, Orlando
my heart goes to you today.