This time it took three.
It is no longer the adults that shoot,
Children are targets,
Schools where the focus should be on education
Instead turn into battlefields.
Students learning lockdowns—
Drills that go beyond natural disasters.
Soon, schools will all be equipped with
Metal detectors, and locker searches will be conducted
Not for spray cans but for bullets.
Instead of fractions, students learn how to stay silent.
Instead of figurative language, students learn to describe reality.
In case there is a shooter on campus, students learn how to hide.
When will we change?
They say that we can have screenings and backgrounds.
Every day the bodies keep stacking.
When will we change?
Every day, the shootings seem to get closer.
Parents now are told of emergency protocol for shootings.
There is something wrong with our values when we argue for our
rights to property
And others argue for the safety and lives of the innocent.
