Are You Listening Yet?
Hello -
Is anyone there?
Are you paying attention?
Can you pretend that you care?
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Our children are dying,
like soldiers - going to war.
Hiding out in their classrooms,
with no explanation - what for.
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Hey, are you listening yet?
A child, age six -
Packing heat in his backpack,
teacher shot in the chest!
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What’s going on here?
How are we still standing still?
Before this happens again,
we all know that it will.
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A false sense of security -
Utopia built up in your head.
How many more need to be buried?
Until enough are declared dead.
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Humanity fading
Politics run amuck.
Chasing after agendas -
More ways to make a quick buck.
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Shame on us - for waiting.
These are our babies being slaughtered.
It’s time to stand up and defend them,
our families, sons and our daughters
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Litigation, mediation, trepidation
Something - somewhere needs to change!
Before we lose more irreplaceable lives,
at our emotionally abandoned shooting range.
Comments (5)
My creative, out-of-the-lines daughter used to complain about this exact thing to me after art class in elementary school.
Spectacular!!! Loved it!!!
nice writing, my take, you can’t cross the line unless one is drawn 🤷🏻♀️🙆♀️, ❤️ed this one
Oh my. Love that last night.
Oh right?? That last line was gold. Stay in the lines, indeed. Well done :)