A Mother’s Nightmare
A haiku about sudden, and violent loss
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1 min readOct 29, 2019
Wake up to sirens.
A mother screaming out “Why?”
Cries of the city.
A teenager was shot and killed at a Halloween party in Miami a week prior to this posting. I wrote this from the point of view from the neighbors hearing a mother scream upon hearing their child was killed at an innocuous party. The whole city cries when a another child dies senselessly from gun violence.
