Evergreen on Her Ornament

In 2006, some store created a xmas ornament of a glittery gun. Many anti-gun advocates began to protest. I thought that it would be interesting to think about the tree caught in the middle.

Hang something on on me
Give me something that shines
I want to giltter with silver and gold
No matter what it is
So long as it is festive and pleasing to you

I don't understand why
People are getting so mighty and high
Over something you gave me
An ornament of a glitter gun
Hung so neatly and care free
What this is is not violence but comedy
Or parady thereof

Gliter gun hangs on me
Oh how it shines
But it blinds the eyes of many
Stirs memories of lost loves
Stirs the hurt and pain the bullets caused
BUt my glitter gun did none of this
Just check the first amendment

My glitter gun has become a symbol
One of comedy, one of lobbist pain
But on the second I see hypocrites lined in front of the door
Protesting this so called symbol of crime
Yet many have across their neck and on their body
A symbol of something far more cruel an worse
It was never their cross to bear
But they wear it like it's something to be glorified
Men died in days of anguish and pain
Atleast my counterpart ends it fast and true

I don't want to make light of any of your tragedy
I don't want you to feel any more pain
But I expect you to do the same
Display your crossed 2x4's
My ancestor's cut in thier prime
To serve a sinister cause
Blood red their flesh did run
But their symbol is something you wear
And I accept this from you
Let me wear my glitter gun that means no harm to you

And on the day the masses come to me and celebrate
They'll look and be amazed with all that I've been adorned with
Lovely lights, silver and gold
And maybe more than one
Of my precious glitter guns

Author's Note

The things that people will protest/cry out about amaze me, but then again so do the things that people create for xmas trees, heck xmas in general (which I'm not a big fan of.) I found this particular subject interesting, considering that those that believe in Jesus wear a cross, which some of the people at this protest/press conference wore. It's just very odd that we as Christians wear the very thing that tortured and killed the man that was our savior. It's like wearing a sniper rifle if you're a JFK fan, or a neuce to remember the vicitims of various lynch mobs during the time of Jim Crow. I think the ornament was tounge-in-cheek, nothing more. It didn't glorify violence any more than everything else in our society (take a look at MTV or even the night news sometime, you'd be suprised). I figured the tree would provide a very interesting outside opinion of the whole thing were it "humanized."