Deadly Weekend

On ONE weekend in February,

Here in the mighty USA,

Eighty people were killed in shootings--

Eighty lives were whisked away!

 

Some of the incidents were mass shootings,

Including one in Kalamazoo

Where SIX people were shot to death!

Why is there no hullabaloo?

 

That’s not even the complete picture:

On the same weekend, from what we can tell,

Along with the eighty people killed,

One hundred fifty were wounded as well.

 

Has this become the new normal--

Gun violence to such a degree?

Is that what our founding fathers

Envisioned for this land of the free?

 

(2-23-16)