My mama's downstairs
She already cried once tonight
I wanna hug her close
I just wanna hold her tight
I need to see her smile
As I tell her it's all gonna be alright
But I can't
Cause I don't know if it's true
See I got this brother
And he's only two
And by the time he's five
I'd be at college, wouldn't have a clue
Till I'd be sitting in my dorm
Watching the news
And my heart drops when I hear
There was a shooting at his school.
And I hear his name said
On the list of the fatalities
And I come to realize
To them he's just another casualty
My baby brother taken
By this screwed up society
I sit in my room tonight and weep
Knowing my worry is someone's reality
Some say this is God's plan
But they weren't meant to die young
This a human being
Able to mess up lives with a single gun
But see the possibilities
Have only begun
What about the child who loses their mom
Before her time on earth is done
Because instead of bringing peace
We shun those we feel are wrong
What about those who lose their lives
Without knowing what went on
Inside their head
So they solved it on their own
America's gotta wake up
Chaos is among us
We are the next generation
But instead of act we'd rather fuss
About this mess we were left with
So we scream and we cuss
But nothing gets done that way
We've become the joke people discuss
Because instead of CHANGING the path
We've resorted to THEIR violence
It's time we RISE as the force we are
It's time to BREAK the silence
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My Poetry Book
PoetryI know that this may seem like a weird type of book. These poems may not make sense to anyone who reads them. That is because poetry is written from a place of emotion. That can be any emotion. I was told by many of my peers that I should share my p...
