Fear Comes Poem by Randy McClave

Fear comes from weakness
And not from child birth,
Yet we are the most heavily armed individuals
On the entire planet earth.
We are terrified of our neighbors
We are frightened of all strangers,
Whenever we leave our padlocked homes
We prepare ourselves for all dangers.
We are scared to drive on the highways
And we are worried to go to stores,
We are afraid to send our children to school
As we believe there might be wars.
We over simplified our life into guns
We don't think in terms of creative solutions,
Tomorrow will be a terrible frightening day
As we think of attacks and revolutions.
We enter our churches always packing
Then we worship and we pray,
We give thanks for our family and protection
Then we give an, "Amen" to the NRA.
We don't want you to fight us with words
And we don't want to fight you with fists,
Because, we would then cower or runaway or hide
We daily thank our leaders that guns exists.
We call ourselves brave Americans
While flying the flag of red, white and blue,
We are the citizens who carry a gun
Because, we are truly scared and frightened, of you.

Randy L. McClave