Remembering Sandy Hook--Three Years Later

Do you remember Sandy Hook?

It was three years ago that we

Heard about a twenty-year-old

Going on a murder spree.

 

December 14: Do you remember

Hearing the news that day?

Twenty children are no longer here

To run and laugh and play.

 

Ages six and seven they were--

The kids who lost their lives.

Imagine the pain that lingers in every

Loved one who survives.

 

Six adults at the school that day

Were also brutally shot.

Will we ever find a way

To cut the Gordian knot

 

Of senseless killing and murderous mayhem,

Or having the fear that when

Our loved ones leave the house, they might

Never come home again?

 

Millions of Americans cling to a murky

Second Amendment right--

Spurred on by a huge gun lobby

Whose appalling power is tight.

 

It's bewildering why Sandy Hook

Wasn't the very last straw.

When it comes to sensible gun control,

People just hem and haw.

 

Universal background checks;

Assault weapons bans, as well;

No large-capacity magazines…

Must that be such a hard sell?

 

The focus of many is strictly on

Their "rights" and their pocketbooks

Instead of demanding ways to prevent

Future "Sandy Hooks."

 

(12-17-15)