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