Who Shot The Rose?

One more dreamer              
Flower girl              
Peddling promise                
Pistoled                
               
One less rose scented sidewalk              
to shepherd the senseless
into sanctuary    
               
Hit by a stray bullet        
NRA to save bullets?               
She tried to write away bullets          
           
Award winning writer rose called Parks                
Little Rosa Parks                
Front seat, furious for freedom        
Dodging delinquent gunfire daily            
               
Sadly, seeds of the streets                
Stem like statues                
End as tombstones              
               
Withering in her mother’s arms                
She was only 13.              
We all held the gun.              
We didn’t do enough.                
Some of us did nothing.              
               
One more dreamer              
Flower girl              
Planted painfully                
watered by tears                
Gardened in eternal light.              
               
In memory of a fellow brilliant writer,                
Sandra Parks.                
               
IG : Nourish_Cruz