Tag: school shootings

The Uvalde children haunt me.

It’s been a year today.

Grown-ups failed our children.

We bow our heads.  We pray.

The Uvalde children haunt me –

restless shadows of the past –

leading Conscience to remember

little lives that didn’t last.

The Uvalde children haunt me.

They are ever on my mind.

I hope they walk with angels

in a place both Good and Kind.

The killing’s in St. Louis today.

Tomorrow?  We don’t know.

Perhaps the killer’s loading now

and getting set to go.

The Uvalde children haunt me.

Blurry shadows in my mind.

Always seeking resolution.

Seeing answers they won’t find.

Uvalde, Texas

The Uvalde children haunt me…

…ever present in my mind.

Always sending out their sad reproach

to a world that wasn’t kind.

orld that wasn’t kind.

Small bodies in the graveyard.

They speak, as children can.

They tell the awful story of

the cruelty of man.

Fresh faced kids head off to school,

ready to learn the Golden Rule.

Eager to grow and have some fun.

Somewhere, a shooter loads his gun.

Oh, well.

Kids are heading out to kill.

They’re bringing guns to school.

The playground is a jungle.

Forget the Golden Rule.