Uvalde
I live my life, she lives hers,
Moment to shining moment,
Adventure at her doorstep,
My granddaughter, sweet angel
With enougfh little devil in her
To make life a daily charm.
And I do not want to imagine...
And I cry out, yet again, When will it stop?
When will we stop aborting our children
Already here?
No rhymes today, just unmetered tears,
Incomprehensible sorrow.
If the children are our future,
What of America now?
About this poem
We each deal with tragedy in our own way, even tragedies that do not affect us directly but demand our focus. I remind myself that it's not about me, but I need to put it in terms I can understand. I always turn to poetry. We lose a human being to gun violence in America every 45 minutes. In the two weeks since this tragedy there have been over 18 “mass shootings” throughout the country. Only in America! Only in America does a person's right to own a weapon of mass destruction trump another person's right to not live in fear of being murdered at random. So I ask, and I warn. As Wilfred Owen instructed us over a century ago, it is a poet's duty to warn. more »
Written on May 22, 2022
Submitted by RoyBlokker on June 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 423 |
Words | 85 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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