I only had to go school today
I ate my toast I grabbed my bag
And don’t forget to say bye to dad
All I had was to go to lesson
Meet my friends
Give a presentation
Maybe today I can learn something new
Do a science experiment I’ll be happy to
Go to homecoming with someone I love
But how can I do that
I only had to go to school
I ate my toast I grabbed my bag
This time I couldn’t say bye to Dad
All I had was to go to lesson
Hide in a cupboard
Not to give myself away
And cover my ears to block out the screams
Maybe today something would change
My safety ensured
But not today
I only had to go to school
A place of learning
Friendship
And love too
But what I wasn’t prepared for
An early departure
From the world that I lived
I looked forward to my graduation
Sometimes we forget to say goodbye
But that’s not our faults
We did not plan this
But we could have prevented this
I only had to go to school today
My daughter said as she smiled and made her way
I don’t remember saying goodbye,
but I hope I did
Because that was the last time
I saw her alive
I wasn’t prepared for what came next
To outlive my daughter
And bury her along with the rest.
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Author:
Kai (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I am from the UK and have not been in a school shooting though, I am an empath. I wrote this poem to not only express how I felt about the recent shooting, but what I felt listening to a father who only sent his daughter to school because it is school and wouldn't expect to have a shooting. But in reality it should have been expected since guns are legal and people can kill others, which is why I highlight that it can be prevented. Those who live with guns in their life have to face danger everyday. The phrase fighting fire with fire does not count when the lives of the innocent people are at cost. All they have to do is simply remove guns, and none of this would have happened.
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I don't understand what outback is trying to say but I for one am with you all the way - to us Brits it's sheer lunacy not to tackle gun ownership - per capita there are 300 gun deaths in the US compared to just one in the UK where we have strict gun control - a no-brainer. Super write.
Everybody should read this regardless of position. A compassionate look into the lives of those directly affected, thank you for that.
WELCOME KAI ~ Thanks for your first POEM a very elegant and moving tribute to the DEAD & BEREAVED in the School Shootings in "The Sunshine State !" SO so sad and so so moving. I'm involved in Education in a College and I cried for the so sad loss of 17 Young & Promising Lives. When will they ever learn ? Death & Wounding by GUN per capita in the USA is 100 times greater than in the UK because there are 325 million People in the USA and 325 million Guns. When I visited a GUN STORE in Alabama it made me physically ill. The GUN Laws are outdated ~ but TRUMP will do NOTHING to alter the USA Gun Laws ! Please pray for Florida & America ~ Thanks for caring ~ Yours BRIAN (UK)
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