Emotions Were Taken Hard

a troubled area, crime infested

There was so much insanity,

people began spitting out profanity,

unnerving meetings,

a photograph with the word greetings

stapled to her body,

emotions were taken hard,

her naked body marred

by a deep, bloody,

close range gunshot wound

into her forehead,

the message was clear,

dead meant dead,

the people stirred,

and the neighborhood would fear,

and that reality was all too clear.