Dissolution Meadow

by Saul Trabal

Cacophony of wails and shrieks
Lightning crackles in hot red streaks
Raging tempest of tears and blood
Fast becoming a crimson flood

The storm is seeded by various souls
Infinite backgrounds, ages and goals
All have met a ghastly end
Death by bullet, a continuing trend

Preschoolers, concert goers
Teenagers and workers
Cut down by lead hail
Fired off by dark lurkers

Hate filled hearts
Sickness filled minds
Vengeance they seek
Chaos swiftly unwinds

A one purpose tool
Willing hands take it in
Folks scream at politicians
Who are deaf to the din

Who wields this tool
Must be given proper sight
Yet disagreement rages
Between the left and the right

Crops of headstones grow
Fields at imminent overflow
Souls that have passed
Their numbers have amassed

A madness that must cease
Finding that elusive peace
Saner heads must prevail
Tempering such wayward hail

Deadlock a great peril
The need to choke the barrel
Urgency grows each second
More souls will be bludgeoned

History will take note
Other nations shall demote
The USA in their eyes
Just more contradictions and lies

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