Hey You

Psst?

Wanna buy a catapult?

You can fire a marble a long way

You can pin a hand drawn bullseye

On a tree

To improve your aim

Psst?

Wanna buy a bow and arrow?

And play cowboys and Indians

Recreate a famous battle

And play dead for a few seconds

Then go home for tea

Psst?

Wanna buy an Air Rifle?

You can shoot tin cans

Off a wall

Or shatter bottles

And that kid you don’t like…

Psst?

Wanna buy …a real gun?

Think of the power

Think of the fun

Look at the fear in the eyes

Of those who see what you’ve become

Psst?

Wanna fight in a war?

And play with sophisticated weapons

With likeminded friends

You like how it makes you feel

Killing people for real

Psst?

Wanna be buried under sand?

Alone in a foreign land

A million miles from childhood

A long flight from innocence

With the rest of your life….gone

©JMcN2014