Sudden Lunacy Syndrome

A shaken community haunted anew by

tragedy confronts a puzzling conundrum

just exactly what is it that transforms an

ordinary human being into a raving psychopath?

It's a legitimate question begging for an answer

to a mysterious mind-changing element in

humanity that bedevils us from time to time

and this is one of those times. Psychopaths

we know are without conscience and absent

those emotions of compassion and care so

integral to human decency. And here we

deviate for this was a sudden malefactor who

did display compassion not merely posing as

true psychopaths do to screen themselves from

scrutiny. Unless he was, like the coronavirus now

shattering the world order and consuming lives

as its appetite rages globally, asymptomatic.

How account for a raging passion unleashed

through some sinister cerebral malfunction to a

pathway of blind rage sowing terror and death

indiscriminately leaving a community hollowed

out in mourning and the instrument of their

shocked bereavement titled as the demon who

committed the nation's largest mass murder ?