A couple gut punches to inspire

1.

The white sheet over the professor's face

wiped all her life's work without a trace.

I asked what she had done

the police pointed to the gun.

Oh how far she had fallen from God's grace!

2.

I gave the emaciated boy ham on rye

He took it with a tear in his eye.

After a single bite,

he gave up the fight.

And the rest became food for the flies.