AGAIN

The flags are at half mast (again)

(Sweetie, did you remember your lunch?)

The pain is just beginning (again)

(Don't forget you have a dental appointment at noon)

Whose child will not come home? (again)

(Be sure to make your bed, Nana is coming to visit)

Send out word, guns must be banned (again)

Of course, it is not guns that kill

(Please tell me where my child is! I can't reach them!)

There is a bloody floor where the teens were gathered

Young souls have been ravished and torn.

Cries rise up and the moans of agony are heard. (again)

Senators, don't bother lying (again)

we already know your pockets

are larger than your consciences.

(Of course, America needs AK-15's and AK-47's)

We need to have them!

After all, the NRA says so, right?

Save the sloppy excuses and “oh, so sorries”

for your reelection speeches.

Save them for the people whose children's

Blood has not been poured out in a hallway or

classroom. (again)

Lady Liberty is weeping for her children. (again)

Remember, all you Power brokers and Law Makers,

The mills of God grind slowly,

But they grind exceedingly small.

Valentine's Day 2018

Oneata Windler