She’s around sixteen years of age

Everyday day she just goes

Talking all about the future

About all she doesn’t know

But the future is forever

Forever isn’t now

In a heartbeat she could lose it

She never wonders how

Everyday when she leaves for school

She’s risking her own life

To people all around the world

Who favour guns and knifes

All over the life of a child

Living very freely

A generation made simple

They have it real easy

She thinks school is all just lessons

A place that is just safe

But school is just a slice of life

Just one short little phrase

People steal the lives of children

Take lives and quickly leave  

Offering only fear and sadness

But she has it easy?

It’s about time America

you think that’s easy

Love the people not the bullets

Lives can’t be just briefly

If  we only hope for sunshine

For only good each day

We forget all about the rain

And soon we lose our way

We can not ignore the lives lost

Hide them far in the dark

When there’s more that could be taken

Leaving lost broken hearts

If someone only sixteen years

Is scared to be alive

You should consider changing that

At least just talk and try

Cause maybe she lost her best friend

And her enemy too

All from a gun, from a bullet

That was shiny and new

If lives are being sacrificed

Too many every year

The screams of kids are deafening

But no one seems to hear

We could all choose to yell and scream

To use our strong loud voice

Remember it’s all up to you

Why is silence your choice?