Bad day

They say death is silent
He never makes a sound
I got news for you pookey
Death is f*****g loud
Death sends tracer rounds
Screaming at your head
I'll take you if I want you
An inch away from dead
Death blacks out a crystal sky
Riding an aluminum frame
Death lyes hiding in the ground
Playing his trickster games
Death is on a cell phone
Talking to mortar crews
Setting up coordinates
Then were on the us news
Death runs at a check point
Singing Allah be praised
Death squeezed his trigger finger
and blew a 14 year old away

Author's Note

I don't work on these types of poems. They just happen.

Reviews

[Michael G.]

Well written and acutely accurate.

I think that is one of the main things most kids don't realize. When a real bullet hits, it is seriously game over. You don't get to reset, and all the players are back in action again.
Great write.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for the review Mr G

[KeeD]

It's the harsh truth of the new world we live in, weapons of death are behind every false veil of commands waiting to be given in the false name of God or Country. Good write.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you

[Carolann Dowsett]

Wow harsh reality and total truth. Say it as it is, its time the truth was heard. Very well written.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Carolann

[Carolann Dowsett]

Welcome baby :)

[Quill~]

Death is inevitable. To hear of the violence that death reaps is traumatic. A powerful write.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you

[Tate Morgan]

Death is all around us .But i say let it come if does .There is nothing we can do to negate it. Respect is what death demands and those who dont respect him meet him.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for the review Mr Morgan

[Frieda P]

Pookey threw me but it was all deep and dark after that...ending freaked me a bit.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for the review Frieda

[AYVID N]

It's Death ruling everywhere!
Claiming the dead and the alive!
The grim reaper is out and resplendent in full glory! :)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you