Shooting Children

A poem

Photo by Max Kleinen on Unsplash

America, land of the gun,
home of the bereaved
gone is the pursuit of happiness
forget the right to life

The Second Amendment misunderstood,
politicians wring their hands
words uttered in vain, meaningless
Sandy Hook changed nothing

Let’s shoot children, all complicit
every senator or congress member
life is cheap just like bullets
shooting children in the land of the gun

Published in The Lark