Mother's Day was observed with a prayer gathering at Albuoy's Point, and five white carnations each bearing the name of a 2011 gun victim dropped into the waters of Hamilton harbour.A group of fifteen joined in a circle around Albertha Waite, and Stand Up Bermuda organiser Gaynelle Hayward, for the 2pm ceremony yesterday.An often tearful Mrs Waite said: “I haven't lost a family member. I'm here today because I know four of the five families who have lost boys this year. I know the family of David Clarke very well. Randy Robinson's mom and the family we talked about his plans to go off to school. The family of Jason Smith Mrs Smith was a mother sent from heaven. She buried her son just yesterday, and she was the one comforting all his friends and family. We are coming together here to pray for these young men who are out perpetrating this violence, that they will change their ways.”A circle of fourteen women and one man joined hands in Point Pleasant park, praying and sharing their grief.After reading the Lord's Prayer, the Serenity Prayer and Psalm 23, many also gave voice to the same fear of what would happen next.Their joining refrain was a call for immediate change.Caroleann Wade, whose nephews Randy Robinson and James Lawes were both recent gun victims, told the circle: “Two of my nephews have been murdered. Now I have a grandson who is being bullied at school to join a gang. This needs to stop.”Ms Hayward said: “Each one of us knows someone who has been affected.“When I can hear a member of Parliament stand up and say they're still thinking about it, when they can have a special meeting for a Special Development Order, I just feel that we have to have action now. We're standing on the edge of a cliff, and with just a little extra weight, it's all going to go over.”Maryam Muhammad told the circle that it hurt her to hear people blaming parents.“I know Randy Robinson's parents and they are exceptional parents,” she said. “We should remember the mothers that have given the best they can. And it's still possible to raise a child the best you can and still to lose them. It's possible to bring up a child and do all you can for them, and they still chose the wrong path.”Mirrors volunteer Carla Richardson called for people who felt powerless to contribute to the group.“Mirrors is a way for us to be effective on the ground, and it always needs volunteers,” she said.“If you're looking for something to do with your time, it's the most transformational experience I have seen.”Pat Ferguson told the circle that perpetrators of violence “come from neglect, from no love, no nurturing, no nothing. These kids have grown up all by themselves.”She said: “I have two daughters who live overseas, and when they came back and see what's happening here, it's heartbreaking. This has been happening over the last 15 years, but it's getting worse. We all have to take action now.”At 3.15pm, the group gathered at the dock, and dropped in flowers for this year's list of gun murder victims: Colford Ferguson, Jahmiko LeShore, Randy Robinson, David Clarke and Jason Smith.The funeral for Jason Smith, shot dead on May 1, was held on Saturday.Afterwards, Ms Hayward said the anti-violence group Stand Up Bermuda now has over 2,000 members online, and said it now plans a mass rally to be held in June to bring Bermudians together.“We used to have a murder every ten years in Bermuda,” she said. “Now we have ten a year.”“We've got children afraid to come outside, they're so caught in the paranoia,” Linda Trott said. “Just this morning I spoke to a friend, and both her sons have been victims of this violence we are seeing. And I'm here to speak for mothers who don't know what to do because they don't understand what their children are getting involved in. I'm speaking for our leaders because all of us needs to put aside out differences for Bermuda.”Ms Waite said she had invited members of the clergy to attend but none had been able to attend the Mother's Day ceremony.“Sometimes it doesn't take men of the cloth, just ordinary people,” she said.One woman cried: “Why is Bermuda at the point that someone can say they're not allowed to go up Camp Road? We can't take any more.”At the end of the gathering, Nicole Robinson said she counted herself fortunate not to be among the bereaved.“I have friends who have lost people,” she said. “But what I feel now, as the mother of a young man who's going to turn 18 in two weeks I'm not scared, not worried; I'm terrified. I'm terrified for him and what he has to face right now. He's not involved in any gang. He wants to do great things with his life. But all he has to do is be in the wrong place, or look like the wrong person, and now I have to worry about him getting shot.”