Some wise man said
War doesn’t determine who’s right
It determines who’s left
And who will be left
Once this killing spree ends
Or will it end?
Will we continue this parade of caskets
Followed by a crowd shroud in black?

Dark mindsets
We are tainted with
Subjected to
Pained by
As they die
As we cry
And try to keep their memory alive
And we try to stop this violence poisoning minds
Why must we fight to keep a memory alive of a life barely lived?
He had so much time ahead of him
Before you decided to take it
Away
And can I ask, who are you to say
Who lives and who dies?
Finger on the trigger of that nine
That glock
That AK
That M-16
Whichever killing machine
Whichever you chose as the weapon of choice.
You fail to acknowledge that you are a weapon
The weapon we’d preferred you use
But ignorance blinds you
As we constantly repeat that
Knowledge is power
Its power breaks that mentality
To which you seem to be chained
You believe that you can’t change
So committed to this life you’ve become
But a simple life lesson will show you that
Violence breeds nothing but more violence
Mixed in with fear
You’ve caused our people to
Live in fear
To live in fear is death
So, you, I fear not because I cherish my life
And I refuse to die
I will continue to live
And hope you’ll stop living your life blind.

Stop living your life blind
And put down that gun.
You were given a mouth
A body
For a reason.
This you did not have to buy
Use it
Revoke the cowardice
And face the one who’s wronged you
Without metal, steel, and gunpowder between the two.