Time? It's Time NOW!
We count time in lives lost these days
Thoughts and prayers abound
America= no safe place
How long is too long?
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Here in Michigan we've had another shooting, people dead, no answers.
Our prompt for a haiku challenge is to show how the poem measures /shows the passing of time.
We are showing the passage of time in 2023 with mass shootings, aren't we? 63 so far... and it is FEBRUARY 14TH!
Perhaps by the next #WearOrange Day we will have answers?
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Judey Kalchik
It's my time to find and use my voice.
Poetry, short stories, memories, and a lot of things I think and wish I'd known a long time ago.
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Guns far more important than lives in the USA still. Powerful words
Tearfully true😥
Powerful words. Well said.