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Sherrie Richardson

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

6 poems·Since March 2019
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Trigger

March 5, 2019

How can you eat? How can you sleep? Knowing that you pulled that trigger

how do you go on knowing he fell upon your bullet? His heart stopped beating because of you

How could you take someone’s child, father, brother, and friend. How can you go on knowing 

everyday someone cries and mourns because he’s gone. How can you ? Knowing that you put him 6 ft. Under.

even though his soul has been set free and his body lays to rest. 

How can you eat?

how can you sleep?

how can you think? 

knowing that you pulled that trigger.

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