By: Cedric McClester
Our past is our future
Care to take a peek
There’s a mass shooting
Every single week
It’s good that earth's inheritors
Will one day be the meek
Cuz when it comes to gun violence
We’re on a non-stop streak
We haven’t learn the lessons
Of gun history
So why this keeps on happening
Is no mystery
Bringing about an end to it
Is what we’d like to see
But the political climate
Suggest they'll leave it be
Acting as if there is nothing
We can possibly do
Condemns us to a present
Like the past that we’ve lived through
That’s if we weren’t the victims
Like other folks we knew
Who succumbed to their wounds
As is so often true
How many times
Are we gonna be remiss
Before we find something
To cross off the long list
Like background checks
Or how about we insist
That gun purchases be registered
Instead of just dismissed
Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2015. All rights reserved.