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| Family members embrace following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Feb. 14, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. “Deadliest School Shootings in Modern US History” —VOA, February 14, 2018 |
Snow falls
Summer calls
Crying out for what can not be.
Winter’s chill
Sparrow’s trill
Darkness reigns, I can not see.
Many fools
Always cruel
The soul, all that remains
Only pawn
Myself gone
Invisible, are the chains
Your woe
Strikes the blow
So many lying still, asleep
Another gun
Better run
I’m left alone, to weep.
Never ends
These trends
Infinity. Infinity. No way to decease
Winter’s chill
Sparrow’s trill
Funeral. Funeral. Forget the peace.
Rene Mears lives in Castle Rock, Colorado. Nurse by day, aspiring writer by night. This is her first published poem.