Pain

By E.B. Keane-Farrell

Pain!
I scream in pain.
Pain!
I can feel the blood oozing down my chest.
Pain!
When will this horror stop?
Pain!
Why can't I just get it over with?
Pain!
I feel my life ebbing away.
Pain!
How could someone have been so careless?
Pain!
When a child plays with guns
Pain!
It will end in more than just a lost bullet.
Pain!
It will end in a lost life.
Pain!
Only twelve years gone through my life
Pain!
I'll never see my parents again,
Pain!
I'll never get a job,
Pain!
I'll never look out the window and wonder what the afterlife is like.
Pain!

Because I'll know.

Pain!
As I see my friend racing towards the phone to call the ambulance
Pain!
I think dimly, 'If her parents hadn't had a gun, would I be in this much
Pain!'
I never hear the wailing sirens of the ambulance.
Pain!
I'll never do anything again
Pain!
Because of a careless gun-carrier, a gun that caused me
Pain!

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