RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
Assassin’s Bullet
We disagree on so many things
From defending Ukraine to building a wall
From whether angels really do have wings
To whom will be the next to fall
But we can agree on this one thing:
An assassin’s bullet is against us all
The powerful weapon that took him down *
Should never be allowed
Not on a safe and sacred ground
Nor a place with an assembled crowd
We wonder what the assassin found
That shamed or made him proud
That made his mind unsound
Whatever else can be said
That will move our hearts or stir our rage
A man who lived now is dead
He has left the living stage
He leaves behind the ones he loved
To suffer through this violent age
The soaring hawk, the lonesome dove
No more will he engage
* Charlie Kirk in Utah
