THE CHILD


A shot in the night

A life changed forever

Society turned end over

The child hiding

Another shot

Then a father gone

A husband lost

The child hiding

The gun thoughtless

The sound deafening

Cries in the darkness

Sirens roaring

He waits in the shadows

People wonder

Why he exists at all

Then he turns it on himself

The child damaged

The questions remain the same

The answers will never come

No one will be satisfied


Michael V Hechtman