What would I get if I shot three and killed two?
Maybe a cell, twenty years, probably a shot to the head for acting like a fool.
With an AR-15, how would I be met?
I can’t even walk around in a hoodie without being seen as a threat.
Me walking to a protest with an assault rifle, you could only pray that I stay alive,
You see, when you look like me, that’s called suicide.
But even if I made it out, surely the courtroom would be my demise.
Would the judge say the people I killed weren’t victims?
Wouldn’t everyone speak up and contradict him?
I’m seventeen too but no doubt they’d see me as a grown man.
I know they wouldn’t sympathize if I dared to cry on the stand.
If I had pulled the trigger, would strangers send me millions for my defense plan?
I think instead they would see my actions as a capital offense to reprimand.
Would congressmen offer me internships while still on trial?
If I killed two, would I be seen as a hero, like Kyle?
Will there be change or will these stories continue to compile?
Two steps forward and then we seem to go backwards two hundred miles.
Grade: 12
Silver Spring, MD
Columbia, MD
Aubrey Graham
To make the world a more loving, honest place.
My brothers, Jelani and Bijan