Notes About The Poem

Written after the massacre at Sandy Hook.

A Hail of Lead

Blood can be bleached
From the weeping floors.
Broken glass replaced
In the gaping doors.
But today in a school
Where children played
Innocence was lost -
Mourning came to stay!
At a school near a wood
Wails for children dead,
For teachers gunned down
In a hail of lead.
When will we learn?
And what will it take?
How many need die
Before we awake
To the fact that guns
Are for killing?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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Hankins Avatar
August 7, 2021 at 7:44 PM
Barbara, sadly, I have almost come to believe we will never learn. I drove by Sandy Hook and the school has been completely demolished, obliterated, just like those poor children's lives. The place was a reminder....just too much for the community to bear. I understand. What I don't understand is a culture that cannot accept the fact that "guns are for killing!"
Peckham Avatar
August 8, 2021 at 10:31 AM
I know. Do you live near there? I was brought up in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Only moved to Nebraska three years ago.
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