After the shooting in Buffalo that killed so many innocent people, I started to write this poem. I put all my feelings about these senseless deaths into words that I was too raw to really go back to and edit. I still haven’t really edited it. That’s why it breaks the flow towards the end.
But after what happened at the elementary school in Uvalde I turned back to it. I added to it. I’m frustrated with it all. I can’t believe that this still happens, and I don’t think it’s entirely about gun control at this point. It’s about mental control and all the anger in the country right now. Follow that up with a lockdown at my own school, where luckily, nothing happened.
All the demands of life and the disrespect we give each other.
So here is my 2nd poem I’ve ever put on here (read the 1st one, Push and Pull)
Every Day
Another day, another tragedy
Walking down the street, going to eat
Sitting down to watch a movie
We can’t even go to school in peace
Live stream the fatalities
Like your something to see
Digital images etched in memories
But now you and me, we can’t sleep.
Sitting in the darkest corner
Huddled around the glowing phones
Praying harder and harder
Please just leave us alone
Take away the guns or don’t
It doesn’t matter
To the people in power
When the mind is broken and splattered
When people are too scared
To go shopping or care
When young minds are gone
When my son goes to school
I fear not what he may learn,
But that he won’t come home at all
A life is precious
Your life is important
Can we celebrate the love
Instead of the hate.
Can we stop the killing?
Can we stop the debate
Share love, not hate