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Letters to the Editor by June & Bobby Bostic

August 8, 2018 by San Quentin News Contributor

“I have been receiving the SQ News for several years and am continually impressed by the way it offers articles for both those on the inside and those on the outside, educating both groups about the other.”

— June McKay

 


The Terrible Bullet

Bullet can I ask you a question

Why are you so terrible

In the wake of your onslaught things turn horrible

See how you rip through bodies and kill so many dreamers

Just a ripple from the trigger sends blood flowing in streams

Made by man but yet given a life of your own

You are not the solution because you break up many a happy home

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People dealing with issues thinking that you can solve them

Yet in the end you become their greatest problem

Look at the damage that you do to their world

Taking the lives of innocent boys and girls

Oh bullet they say that you do to the world

But yet in life you play such a deadly game

You have no eyes so therefore you cannot see

Blind to the fact that you are killing off humanity

I wonder if you knew your crimes would you respect

And if so would claim that the deaths you caused wasn’t meant

Would you just blame man and absolve yourself of guilt

Wrapping your consequences are so real

Nothing but a piece of steel

Yet your fatal consequences are so real

I must ask of those whom have emotions that feel

Why has the bullet been given the power to kill

Not even knowing those whom it may slay

Yet those precious lives will not live to see another day

Recently I read about a child that was shot and killed

I guess they had to go because this what heaven willed

But why were you so unsympathetic in what you did

Do you not realize that the life you took was that of a kid

Oh mighty bullet let me ask you another question

Because  everyday your deadly  deeds be having me guessing

I wonder at your worth but still can not figure it out.

Death and destruction is what you are all about

Look at how tore through that woman’s heart.

Ripping her entire family apart

Then you have theses greedy businessmen that become a gun dealer

Them as well the triggerman is the real killer

Look at the precious metal

But it is used for the wrong purpose by the devil

He destroys the souls that he posses

Even the killer kills a part of themselves in the process

So bullet who do you answer to

Is destruction the only way that you pay your due

All it takes is a pull of the trigger to unleash your fury

Shutting down all the factories that makes bullets would be the best theory

Because a lifeless bullet can take a life on its own

Once released into the air it is terror prone traveling at the seed of light

All it takes is one bullet to end a life

Causing grief and destroying so much

A lot of havoc can be reaped from a bullets touch

Man fingers the trigger and then pulls it

Little does he realize the endless consequence of the terrible bullet

 

Bobby Bostic Jefferson City Correctional Center, Jefferson City, MO. 651015-4-18

 
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