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BOOM
How boring
He won’t stop talking
On and on,
The clock ticks slowly
Time is slowed
I want to go home
I want to take a nap
BOOM
What was that
BOOM
Was that a gun
BOOM
Screams, they’re horrible
He rushes to the door
Running, people are running
Is this really happening
BOOM
It’s close
Who is it?
Why are they doing this?
He locks the door
Covers the window
Turn off the lights
We hide, all is quite
BOOM
She covers her cry
BOOM
She hides her face in my chest
BOOM
The sound is deafening
It’s so close
bang, Bang, BANG
They’re next door
More screams
BOOM
Muffled cries
Yelling
BOOM
I hold my friend close
I can’t lose her
The window
Maybe we can escape
I crawl over
check the window
It opens slightly
I push it open
Looking back I see them
They’re following me
I motion for them
to crawl out quietly
My teacher approaches
His eyes are panicked
Yet he smiles at me
He helps me out
He follows out and we hear it
The bang on our door
bang,
Bang,
BANG
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“BOOM” is a social commentary on the subject of school shootings. I wanted to present a poem in which the narrator lives but is left traumatized. Many people don’t understand that events such as school shootings leave a mark on the community as a whole not just the families of those who were injured or killed. The narrator in my poem is shown to be strong in the face of danger but also very much human as she is terrified of what could happen. More people need to understand the harm of loose gun control laws in the states and how they are harming the young populations in schools as well as teachers. Children are scared to go to school because they don’t know if someone could finally break and come to their school with a gun. It’s sad and terrifying to think you could go to school one day and not return home later.