Gun Crime in the 21st century

closed poem down

In these days where paranoia rules

those who over react are fools

tales of bomb gun and knife

are overblown so get a life.

Go to the park and smell the flowers

don't watch the news for hours and hours

for if you do they will make you sorry

and you'll feel like jumping under a lorry.

In these days where paranoia rules

those who over react are fools

tales of bomb gun and knife

are overblown so get a life.

 

Go to the park and smell the flowers

don't watch the news for hours and hours

for if you do they will make you sorry

and you'll feel like jumping under a lorry.

Paranoia perhaps but the media tends to ramp it up and we all get the impression that these gun crime incidents are the norm.

I liked your poem but didn't quite understand why you reflected on it by writing one of your own,

Poetry is meant not to necessarily send a message but to engage the reader to understand the meaning of what is written, sometimes we tend to deal with cold hard facts like a forensic would do with the body of a deceased.

I hope you liked it from a poetry perspective even if the message contained with it might have sounded a bit paranoid as you put it?