Poetry Festival will be held:

Saturday, April 27, 2024

2017 Winner

Lost Ones

for every child born

There’s no guarantee

 

for every blessing

There’s a storm

 

for every backwood in Mississippi

There’s a monument in Washington

 

for every black male

There’s a bullet chasing his future

 

for every Medgar Evers

There’s a byron de la beckwith

 

for every boonie in the heart of the bigoted south

There’s a shattered echo of freedom

 

for every MLK

There’s a james earl ray

 

for every Bloody Sunday in Alabama

There’s a sacred place

 

for every Abraham Lincoln

There’s a john wilkes booth

 

for every dylann roof

There’s a St Aloysius church

 

for every newspaper published

There’s a tragedy in the fine print

 

for every Trayvon Martin

There’s a mother

 

for every Anthem

There’s a soldier ready to kneel

 

for every segregation today, tomorrow, and, forever

There’s a Civil Rights Act

 

For every John F. Kennedy

For every Emmett Till

For every Civil Rights martyr

 

There’s an America

whose declarations left you

Broken.

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Jirhe Love

Gonzaga College High School

Grade: 12