Are we safe anymore?
Are we safe anymore?
I wanna say it’s not true, are we safe anymore? bullets flying in and out through the main room doors. Just say it’s not true, parents see and hear that their kids are gone, the pacing of hearts, their minds racing, they don't know what to do. Imagine the pain of seeing your classmates go, they look the same but it’s not them. Meaning the trauma that was inflicted into these childrens innocent minds alters them in a way that is unseen; they won’t live the same living in constant fear of the event occurring again. Trauma.
Trauma. You don’t gotta cry but imagine the kids' fear, them hearing those loud noises and hearing the bullets ricochet off the walls of the neighbors. All huddled in a dark room that was once warm and vibrant that has now gone cold. Screams and then silence and while all that occurring you sit in silence trying your best, trying your best to hold your breath because if you don't your next. The teachers not wasting a breath to protect and save lives of the kids that they didn’t even know, Throwing their bodies in front of the bullets that were flying through the air, covering the children with a shield of their own body in order to deny. Put some respect on their names. They put themselves up as a target to make it even, they didn’t need a good reason to put themselves in the way of danger to protect kids they didn't even know.
Now let's sit in silence as the wind blows.
Are we safe anymore? The parents now fear sending their offspring to school in worry of danger occurring, dreading every text from their wondering if it's just about school or if they are in harm's way, the kids having to spend everyday in school wondering if it’s their last, the parents ready to make it there fast.
And thank you to all of the teachers who are there for the students, who lost their lives due to these terrible tragedies, only to imagine how they feel. The ones who survived won't be the same after the things they witnessed. It’s okay to be okay and it’s okay to not be.
I’m still over here that I’m still in high school. Are we safe anymore? Can we trust anymore? Will the schools protect us from these terrible people? Will brothers, sisters, mothers, daughters, fathers make it home? Or will they have to go to their second one? I sit in fear, now regretting that I wasn't scared because I thought it wouldn’t be big, but the events have latched on like a tick. I thank God because I could've been crawling out from the bleachers yelling out to the police for help, because before I couldn't even yelp in fear of my life that was at stake.
What about the ones who lost their lives, what they thought in their last moments Hearing the sound of that door bursting open. Seeing that weapon in the threat's hand and looking for a first line of defense. What about the ones that couldn't comprehend? Meaning they were laughing and playing and they didn’t know what was going on, shots rang out and their heavenly souls were with the lord. “Mommy i'm scared” protrudes the fear in which one felt. The last text that was sent to a parent who couldn’t see their daughter anymore. Imagine! Imagine that pain! Schools are “welcome to all” but take no precaution at all.
Now a little girl hates herself for being alive after her friend was taken, looking at herself in the mirror asking
“why couldn’t it have been me”
Now that little boy who was full of light and spirit wants to kill himself and explore the dark, he’s gone cold and his parents can't even get through to him.
Now a husband won’t have a beautiful Wife and his kids won't have a wonderful mother regretting not saying goodbye to her and that they loved one last time before she went off to work.
Now Kids, teens, and adults all over America are filled with worry, hurt, fear,. Because these holes in the schools have caused a tear in humanity.
Now silence lingers in the silent halls.
Less of “let’s pray for them” and more of “let’s do something about it”
Say their names!
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