Parkland, Sandy Hook, Columbine,
Hundreds of deaths but seventeen
Seventeen deaths taught us a lesson.
Showed us what guns could do
They can kill
They can ruin lives
The lives they kill
The lives they affect but not directly
The seventeen lives in Florida
They are seventeen reasons to fight
They gave us seventeen reasons to think
To think about what has happened- will happen
To think about why- why didn't we do anything?
They gave us seventeen reasons to write
To write about the past
To write to remember
They gave us seventeen reasons to believe
Seventeen reasons to listen
To ourselves and our friends
They gave us seventeen reasons to live
To live like it matters
To live for someone who can no longer
They gave us seventeen reasons to
Fight, think, write, believe,
To listen, reflect, learn, strive, and communicate
To help, wish, understand
To pray, work, see
To remember
To live
They give us seventeen reasons
They are our seventeen reasons
Seventeen reasons to follow our dreams
For those who can't follow theirs.
All we have is seventeen reasons
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Poems of the Truth
PuisiThese are a collection on poems about various things in life. Gun violence, cancer, the hard topics. These are set or about the Past, Present, or Future.
