Too Many Young Women Go Missing or Are Murdered in This World

I have watched many true crime show
cases on YouTube videos.
In those cases, many young women are
murdered, their futures destroyed.
Boyfriends or ex-husbands are usually
the murderers.
Sometimes they are murdered by strangers
or serial killers.
The numbers are shocking and tragic,
as if it’s open season on young women.
It pisses me off that monsters of my gender
are responsible for these horrors.
And I cannot imagine how terrifying those
last moments must have been those women.
I hope when they died they went to a place
that erased the memories of their deaths.
I hope it was a better, safer place then this
world that was so dangerous for them.

Bob Boyd