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OUR PAST IS OUR FUTURE

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.

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