I have posted this poem of mine on several different international poetry sites everytime there is a school shooting in the U.S as I care about all children deeply and feel for innocent lives lost.
This time in Uvalde, Texas, USA)
What kids are watching on telly
are crimes and crimes in all variety!
Crimes of hate
crimes of passion
acting it out at shocking rate
thinking in some wild fashion
then ending up cell mates
TV can kill their compassion
Their coffins enter cemetery gates
When kids watch their movie heroes
shoot down people with the gun
they are incited to do the same
to achieve some thrill and fun.
When they see their very film star
slash someone\'s throat in a fit of anger
they think well of crimes of rage
and plunge everybody else into danger.
The tendency to portray the violent scene
luridly and shockingly on the Big Screen
Ah, even for the small screen, tis the gory
that makes for the dark and thrilling story.
Now that technology\'s long opened
this wily pandora\'s box,
the dispersal of amplified social ills
just ain\'t no hoax
The rowdy hoodlums and reckless gangsters
are simply by-products of Tv influences
The world watches the thriving of the bully-boy pranksters
passively in helpless terror of their offences.
It\'s all portrayal of the vulgar, the obscene
by that devious Silver Screen
And the horror movie
though it may seem groovy
begets the horrendous
and drills evil thoughts subliminally
into the subconscious!
Viewing those gruesome swashbuckling films
gives rise to morbid sadistic whims
Flipping through the TV channels just ponder
if the telly\'s the perfect channel
of information is it a proper panel?
Dad always tells me, \'fear ye the roaches\' flicking antennae?
While you oughtta fear the influence
of \'em\' flickering images by dish antennae\'.
It\'s an unrestrained dark faking
of real life reality exaggerating
Whether it\'s Bollywood in the East
or it\'s Hollywood in the West
they don\'t merely impart tactics of defence
but rather those of aggressive offence
Just verbal tougher gun laws couldn\'t halt
even underage shooting sprees
Rather it\'s stringent scanning of Tv content
and banning citizens from acquiring guns
that might make it forever cease
Parental supervision too tis gravely essential
should\'ve been of parental code quintessential
So the next time you catch your youth or teen
absorbed and engrossed while glued to the screen
Just sleuth a bit just to make sure
that for the x-rated he\'s not too keen!
Only a mere single merit that I dug
as I drank cappucino in my mug
that atleast one couldn\'t live in a bubble
daily watching this bubblebug.
https://youtu.be/MttSW45ren8