Tuesday, March 06, 2018

ONE QUESTION FOR SOMEONE WHO OWNS GUNS

by Sister Lou Ella Hickman


Image from The Trace.


                what        and       who
                would you be
                if tomorrow
                all   guns      vanished
                like     children   who   died    in schools


Sister Lou Ella Hickman is a poet, writer, and a certified spiritual director.  Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines such as First Things, Emmanuel, Third Wednesday, and TheNewVerse.News.  Her first book of poetry was entitled she: robed and wordless.