Broken Promise Poem by Jim Yerman

As parents we made a promise to our children
the first time we held them in our arms:
To love them unconditionally
To keep them safe from harm…..

But we haven't kept our promise
to our daughters and our sons…
when we do nothing to stop their being killed
at the hands of someone with a gun….

And so our children now are weeping…
Pleading with us to disrupt this flood
of senseless violence and murder…
and they are crying tears of blood…

We must make a choice now
of what we're going to do.
If we don't help them..
if we let them die
then part of us dies too.

We have been failing our children for too long.
At a solution we MUST arrive!
We must do something to keep our promise…
to our children still alive

It's time to come together…to fulfill that promise
to keep our children free from harm
for we don't want today to be the last time
we hold them in our arms.