School is a place where each color is learned
A place where green becomes brown when the leaves have turned
Roses are red and violets are blue
School shouldn’t be a place where violence is due

School is a place where children laugh and run
But what is it that they are running from?
School shouldn’t be a place where the days are gray
A place where children are taught to hide and stay away

Gunsmoke
Emma spoke

Lockdown drills
Children with dreams left unfulfilled

School is a place where hopes have turned gray
A place where sunny skies turn dark before the end of the day
Sugar is sweet, why can’t we be too?
The end of gun violence is well past due.