The Devil Played Pool

It often happens that people get irritated with each other, especially within your own family. You know more about these people, are intimately connected with varying degrees of emotion and experiences, and therefore have a far greater ability to hurt one another. This happened in our family today because that's when the Devil played pool.
He lined the pool stick up with cool practice, eyed his target, drew back and rammed the cue ball into the middle of my family. Proverbially speaking, and perfect aim by the way. At this point no one is speaking to anyone, one has posted that another family member is now dead to her, I've been removed from her Facebook page, and I'm equally sure that there are now 3 grandchildren without a grandmother. There have been squabbles and petty resentments along the way which may or may not be typical for most families but I figure it's probably not unusual. But what happened today has left my family totally shattered by unpredicable events leaving each family member wounded, befuddled and dazed. Emotions have to be feeling burned and ragged from the intensity of it all. So where do we go from here. It's obvious to me. We have to get the pool stick out of the Devil's hands. But it will take all of us working together to do it. Maybe after some healing and feelings have calmed down. Hey, anyone ever played pool before? The pool stick is in your hands now.