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A Raging Fire
By what right do you steal tomorrow
from an innocent child?
Who are you to decide
that a boy should not become a man?
What planted the seed of hatred in your heart
and nurtured it to grow so strong,
so dense as to strangle your humanity?
Are you really so blind and dead inside
that you cannot see and hear the suffering
caused by the insanity of your anger?
Or do you just not care?
Remain steadfast in your arrogance;
Go on pretending the world salutes you
for having the ‘courage’ to hide behind a bullet
In truth, the world sees only your ignorance
and continues to weep unnecessary tears,
both for the lives you take
and for the one, your own, you’ve thrown away.
from an innocent child?
Who are you to decide
that a boy should not become a man?
What planted the seed of hatred in your heart
and nurtured it to grow so strong,
so dense as to strangle your humanity?
Are you really so blind and dead inside
that you cannot see and hear the suffering
caused by the insanity of your anger?
Or do you just not care?
Remain steadfast in your arrogance;
Go on pretending the world salutes you
for having the ‘courage’ to hide behind a bullet
In truth, the world sees only your ignorance
and continues to weep unnecessary tears,
both for the lives you take
and for the one, your own, you’ve thrown away.
Published 29th Dec 2020
Author's Note
Probably more of an angry outburst than a poem. Somebody shot blindly into a house a while back, accomplishing nothing but the killing of an 8yr old boy. What were they thinking?!
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5th Mar 2021 8:25pm
I can feel your anger. That's the trouble with the world & your poem sums up the very reason it's not right.
