19 Angels
This world is crazy.
I pray for the little children’s safety.
Children need to be loved and protected.
That’s what’s expected.
To fear a bullet is not the plan.
How do you learn how to read and write
When you have to fear for your life?
19 angels went to heaven before their time.
School is no longer safe?
Is it a sign of the times?
I remember my childhood and my biggest concern was to play tag.
Are the children walking with a bullseye on their back?
Suffer the little children, the most weakest and vulnerable of our society
Will the schools be a place to learn with anxiety?
About this poem
I wrote this when the 19 children in Texas where killed in an elementary school in 2022.
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Written on May 28, 2022
Submitted by LatinX on April 26, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 129 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1 |
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