Roses
People justify the bloodshed
by saying red will make the flowers grow.
But the flowers only grow over the graves
of those whose metallic blood
plants nothing but thorns of outrage.
Their graves are
watered with the tears of the mourning,
fertilized by media,
and planted by those that shout
“Red will make the flowers grow!”
But in the end the flowers wilt,
the planters are forgotten,
and the fertilizer is washed away
by the rains of the mourning
that never seem
to cease.
This poem is about:
My community
My country
Our world