Civilized Society?
written by: Linda M. Crate
thoughts can’t stop a bomb,
and prayers don’t stop
bullets;
policy & change
are also required to
save lives—
when you worship guns
and money,
ignore the consequence
of blood and pain;
you have a legacy of
bones to haunt you
for the rest of your days—
because i know that
despite what they say
the dead do talk,
words echoing long after
their lives are gone;
so let’s honor those who
died but also fight to save
those still living because we’ve
got a long way to go before
society can ever be seen as
civilized.
Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has three published chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon - January 2014), and If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016). Her fantasy novel Blood & Magic was published in March 2015. The second novel of this series Dragons & Magic was published in October 2015. The third of the seven book series Centaurs & Magic was published November 2016. Her novel Corvids & Magic was published March 2017.
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