– Line Of Fire –
A little girl in the department store
picks up a pink toy gun
with which to make-believe her play.
Her mother says never,
because such an influence
is surely to form a flaw in her character,
a morality malformed
and steeped in violence.
But perhaps it is better to let her learn
how to stand with that armament,
better to let her learn how
to stand against the harm of it,
for someday in a future not so very far,
when her world is at war,
and she’s bearing the scars,
she may just need to know how
to stand at the line of fire.