For you

For you
If I could
I would pluck the stars from heaven
And combine them in an exquisite bouquet
For you
If I could
I would fly to the farthest corner of the sky
And take the silver linings of clouds to weave them into a blanket
For you
If I could
I would swim to the darkest depths of the ocean and find the source of the Bermuda horrors
And bring it back as a wonder
For you
If I could
I would climb the highest mountain and pluck a single snowflake
Then carry it back in my frozen palms, perfect and preserved
For you
If I could
I would pause the concept of time
And let the world rest for a while so that we could stare into each other's eyes for eternity.
For you
If I could
I would capture the sparkle in a child's eye
Holding their imagination in a single idea and present it to you
For you
I would pluck out my heart, all bloody and dark and bruise
And hold it out
Dying
Suffocating
But, my dear, it would be
For
You

Guns

In 1996 my country was shook
A young man walked onto a school and took
Two nine millimetre browning HP pistols
Two wesson M19 .357 magnum revolvers
Then horribly, shockingly, eighteen lives
Of a teacher and children age six and five
And then himself, and he died, suicide
Changing the country with that single moment

I ask America if you think it's still right
To arm teachers, to look down the sights
And aim it at the killer, an ex student
To see them as a possible murderer
I ask you if you if you know you hold
The record for the most amount of deaths told
In many graphs, and each by guns
Be it school shootings, murders, terrorism

No, it wouldn't have made a difference
If this shooting was in an NRA conference
Because lives are still lost and gone away
They will never come back again
You say Israel taught and armed their teachers
And in forty four years have had two features
Of school shooting - but how can you compare yourselves to thaf
The war-torn, strict gun controlled nation

Israelis can have only one gun at a time, with mental health checks
Yes, less strict than the UK, I'll allow that respect,
But - they do not complain like you do day and night
Going on about your amendment rights
What you need to have and need to achieve
You need to stop and you need to breathe
And think of the human right to live without fear
What you force many children to do ever daty

Guns kill people, people kill people, I've heard
I do not mind living in a more socialist world
Because I feel safer having children today
Than I would have done in 1996
For the good of the many, for our sanity
Let us be together and not fake bravrity
Let us live in this era of increased pain
Sandy Hook, Parkland, Santa Fe, many more to name

The twenty second school shooting of this year
Is your second amendment worth each tear?
To you it may seem we are controlled
With incidents happening as Alfie Evans
But compared to your healthcare, child deaths
Black arrest and reoffending rates, the rest
When is it time to wake up and say
We no longer want to live in this fucked up American dream