<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Pulse Night Club Orlando, FL 6/12/16, 1:49 am <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">I am Xavier, I am Juan, I am Enrique <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">You are Amanda, Frankie and Angel<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">We are Mercedes, Christopher and Luis <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">We are 6 degrees of separation<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Which means there is no separation<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">If I could have been there at 1:49 am <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">I would have taken each person by the hand<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Led them outside said, Look at those stars<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Go home now - be safe<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">If I could have been there at 12:49 am <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">I would have kept Omar Mateen <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">From entering <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Instead I’d take his hand<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Say go home, go home<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">To your heart<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Go home to your humanity<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">There you can find safety<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">There you will find you are not separate<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">I would, if I could, turn his hate into tears<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">I would say the distance between <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Your dreams and my longing is <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">The distance between <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Each heartbeat<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">I would say that <i class="">we</i> are all <i class="">us</i><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">There is no you and them<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Only the disconnections <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">of you/them in your own heart<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">It’s the truth that hurts the most<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">If I <i class="">had</i> been there at 1:49 am<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">I could not have done a thing<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Nor could God <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">God gave us choice and will<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">We choose what we will <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">God says choose life<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Choose life<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">This night<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">God cries with us<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">And asks us to remember <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">They <i class="">are</i> us <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Choose love<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class="">Choose life<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Sally Churgel</div></body></html>