Tag: gun violence

You might want to stick around –

to live for another day.

His right to kill is paramount

to the folks at the NRA.

Oh, well.

The children of Uvalde

are a mem’ry of the past.

We’ve all gone on to other things.

The outrage doesn’t last.

Kids across the nation practice up

their spelling skills, and

interrupt their lessons for

their Active Shooter drills.

Oh, well.

Uvalde’s just so yesterday.

We hardly can remember.

But, someone now is planning

for another in September.

Oh, well.

You’re not safe at a kid’s parade,

a school, or in a park.

You’re not safe where a

cold young man can kill you as a lark.

You’re not safe in a church or school

where young men with a gun

can kill you in a burst of blood

so they can have their fun.

You’re not safe when a young man

posts he wants to kill and kill,

and has a gun to do it with….

to kill you at his will.

You’re not safe where his right to kill

outranks your right to breath.

You’re not safe where raw politics

leads– once again– to death.

You’re not safe.  Oh, well.

You

A lot of folks are buying a gun.

They’re locked and loaded….Ready for fun!

Don’t want to miss their chance, you see,

to kill the likes of you and me.

Now they’re killing baby girls.

Our children are expendable.

Don’t bother to ask the NRA:

their answers are dependable.

“We have our Rights!.  Our Rights are All!.

We want our Rights, you see!

We want our Right to Carry Arms,

not Responsibility!”

Oh, well.

Three dead in Des Moines in a parking lot.

It’s a quiet little suburb.

But killing’s growing common –

barely raises even a hubbub.

Bodies lying on the street.

Blue strobe lights flashing bright.

Victims lay in seeping blood

as the lights cut through the night.

Oh, well..

Now the shooting’s at a Kroger store.

The bullets slice the aisles.

Shoppers lay in their own blood

amongst the grocery piles.

You’re standing in the check-out line

to pay and go…instead,

you’re laying in a pool of blood

among the hurt and dead.

Oh, well….