No More Memorials, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

The toe tags
The body bags
The flooded market
That we have

Crosses don’t
Bring back the dead
Stand up to the NRA
Instead

Up and down
The flags go
Thoughts and prayers
With nothing to show

Candlelight vigils
After the fact
Are not prevention
Before the act

400 million
Firearms
All the mass shootings
Sound the alarms

Save your flowers
And your wreaths
Save your condolences
We won’t be meek

Crosses don’t
Bring back the dead
Stand up to the NRA
Instead

If we are
To honor the dead
If we want to
Stop the red

Get out of bed
With the beast
The sellers of fear
On which they feast

Crosses don’t
Bring back the dead
Stand up to the GOP
Instead

Makers, sellers
Shops as well
You won’t bully us
With the weapons you sell

Crosses don’t
Bring back the dead
Stand up to the lobbies
Instead

Shopping, movies
Going to school
Should not end up
In a blood of pool

Memorials mean nothing
If we do nothing
They are hollow gestures
When the violence festers

Crosses don’t
Bring back the dead
Stand up to the selfish
Instead.