Why Die So Young, Why Die So Innocent In Classrooms
Narratives of students shot in cold blood
Not on a shooting range
Draw a mass media headline flood
Background check seems a request strange
To diehard hearts hooked to the dollar
From a gun lobby kitty
Whose grip on petrified leadership as though in a kraal
Where they plead not guilty
Turning eyes the other side
Mouthing unmeant condolences
Snide pride to deride
Demands for action that advances
A search for a permanent solution
To the systemic slaughter
Repeated, replayed in lugubrious fashion
Without on petrified mouths laughter
As innocent boys and girls scamper for cover
Under lethal fire
Parents struggling to discover
In ire
If Maggie made it to safety
If Jack hid under a desk
If security agents on duty
Passersby and onlookers they frisk
Asking why students ought to die so young
In their classrooms
As though their lives were dung
Treated with scanty respect like cannon fodder grooms
Doomed in gloom to die
At the hands of loose guns
In the most powerful nation that lives a lie
Showing ineptitude in vampire vans
To resolve student mass murders
As a gun lobby habitude with a tongue in cheek attitude
Whose attention is glued to gun backorders
In paradoxical attitude at a somber latitude.
Copyright © John Sensele | Year Posted 2018
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