Shooting Fields
This was written in 2013, and 12 years later, we face the same dilemma.
Devils killed many angels this year.
Were they always devils? It’s not clear.
They probably started as a newborn angel.
We don’t know if it’s inborn or grows.
Is it the harvest bullying sows?
When do angels turn into devils?
Guns are guns – can only be shot
In the hands of people who should not
Be allowed to have them.
How do we prevent this situation
In this land, we call a free nation
With lots of hard decisions?
Just soldiers need guns with limitless magazine
To prevent the destruction we’ve all seen.
Assault weapons must be banned.
The time has come to get honest and real.
Hunters and “gunners” – how would you feel
If your loved one was the very first victim?
Before you realize what’s going on
Your loved one is already gone.
And you can’t bring anyone back.
It takes practice to improve your aim.
Anyone can easily cast blame.
So let’s think this through.
More police in every school?
To become a teacher, a new rule:
Keep a gun in your desk?
When our students are fooling around,
In the desk, a gun they have found.
What kid gets shot? What kid dies?
Scars are physical, and scars are mental.
We removed a choice that should be parental.
Sadly, we’re all left with the outcome.
Bullets are spun out by someone’s rage.
They know no person, gender nor age.
And often neither does the shooter.
No matter where you happen to stand,
Please let’s save our bleeding land;
Our people, our legacy, our future.
There’s so much more that needs to be said.
These thoughts just come out of my head.
We cannot wait; we must act now.
Since I wrote this, I’ve not had time
To make corrections or better the rhyme.
Yet, many more shootings have occurred.
Because the urgency is much greater,
There can no longer be a later.
The number of victims continues to rise.
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