Do you wanna play
hide and seek
the way they did
backpacks worn as flak jackets?
Did you see there was light
in all their eyes?
Futures dressed up
as roaring flames
when you pardoned bullets
masked as tsunamis.
You are a bastard.
You are a bastard.
You stole their breaths
for 2A’s life support
and sent them spiderwebs
pregnant with flies.
They should have been
chasing butterflies,
(but) now they’re trapped as cocoons
where hugs are distanced by dirt
and friends hear recess bells
as bombs in the hallways.
You are a bastard.
You are a bastard.
Don’t swear to God.
You’re not doing the right thing.
You are a bastard.
[Deberían perseguir mariposas]
They should Your thoughts
have been and prayers
chasing put them
butterflies, in graves
but your thoughts when they should
and prayers have been
put them chasing
in graves. butterflies.
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