Hope

Something maybe a little different from the way I am use to writing. I usually use to writing mostly in rhyme. but in this exact moment I wasn't so focused on that as I was just pouring out how I felt

How could you let this go on
How could you walk by unalarmed
Not affected yet well aware
How is it that you care
While there is violence all around us
Your once sacred place in ruin
you're so called children desecrate
and feel unashamed. Are you ashamed
Or do you feel the same

And yet I carry so much hope.
I withhold such high expectations
How long will you keep us waiting
Because I feel as if we are forsaken

If it is truly up to us why would you wait
for us. why would you wait  after all
that we have done

Centuries and centuries of the same acts
Is it even a question. are we doomed to follow
the same aggression? It seems like it becomes
some sick obsession

Our state of mind has never changed
The slightest thought hasn't even been pondered

I still to this day hope for clarity. Something inside of us
to overcome this foolishness. No we cannot change the past
There is nothing existent to erase our mistakes, nor the choices
that we have made . but if we could only start over. if only
there were a light to guide the way

Jackie Gunnin

May 3rd, 2017

Author's Note

Something different from how i am use to writing