America the Absurd

Photo by Ben White

There’s been more deaths by

shootings than days of the year yet.

Yet the cries of rights

overshadow the cries of fright

from the children in schools.

We spend years practicing for our time

learning how to run, how to fight, how to hide.

The clock is ticking inside each of us --

Worries of which comes first, my turn or my graduation?

Nearly 50 years of the right to choose

tossed away by those without wombs.

The cries of babies protected

overshadow the cries of babies abandoned.

We’re tired of being quiet, of

being docile and being polite.

We’ve been scorned by those sworn

to protect and to represent.

Is this the picture of progress in America?

State of the Union Address synonymous with a football fest…

people are starving, freezing, dying, and more.

While we sit around and wait to mourn,

The world is mocking us, calling us absurd.