Fight Or Flight Starts With a Plan

As I drop my fifteen-year-old son off at school this morning The day being overshadowed by yet another school shooting Makes me want to know who or what Is doing all the recruiting to all these school shootings To light up our screens with all these horrific scenes From these troubled teens With all this evil that it sends All the family memories it brings to an end Listening to the innocent screams of our kids As fear fills their atmosphere From the unmistakable echo of gunfire piercing through their ears Uncontrollable tears running down their face As everyone finds themselves out of place Hearing their friends cries falling in the shooters eyes defying the moment when your child is faced with fight or flight Should we have them continue to hide Hoping fate is on their side Or should we teach them to stand and fight for what is right Because at the end of the day We want to things to go their way Caught up in this killers path Pinned down in the devil's wrath We are all living in the aftermath How many more sons and daughters must they slaughter Before we deal with these almost daily shootings in our schools We need to quit playing the fools By letting Congress rule over anything to do with our schools It's us as parents who are left to bear the scars Of our children who have taken their place among the stars We need to make our schools a safe place to learn As parents with children, we all need to be concerned And take what we learned Put it into play so our kids come home safe At the end of a school day If a shooter should come their way