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Will the Gunfire Ever Stop? [1]

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Date: 2024-12-16  

I wrote this poem in 2015, but then had to add another verse, and now it’s probably time to add yet another verse, but my heart is too sickened for words right now.

I’m in my 70s — will this still be an unfinished poem when I’m no longer here?

Or will the “better angels of our nature” finally prevail and we stop this madness?

GUNFIRE

by officebss

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Someone picks up a gun and points it,

At some famous face they think they know,

Then pulls the trigger —

The bullet nicks the heart of the world

And we all bleed.

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Someone picks up a gun and points it,

At the head they live inside

Then pulls the trigger —

The world explodes

And we all sit in darkness.

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Someone picks up a gun and points it,

At the person they once loved most,

Then pulls the trigger —

“I Love You” now has two meanings

And no one can tell which one.

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Someone picks up a gun and points it,

Looks at faces of passing strangers

Then pulls the trigger —

AgainandAgainandAgainandAgain

For God, for Country, for Fame.

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Someone picks up a gun and points it

At a schoolroom full of kids

Then pulls the trigger —

One blood-covered child breathes in

Fear, buried beneath dead friends.

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Someone picks up a gun and points it,

At some soldier-boy with a gun

Then pulls the trigger —

In nightmares sometimes they kill Hitler,

And sometimes the face is their own.

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Someone picks up a gun and points it,

This time they’re looking at you

Then pulls the trigger —

Too late to stop the madness

All your chances just bled out.

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© 2015, most recent revised version © 2024, by officebss

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