Police - Gunned Down Poem by Paul Warren

It was just an ordinary tasking
To attend a disturbance for the asking
It was at a Housing Trust duplex
Nothing more than a family complex

But during the night the family had been feuding
With the man of the house ready to be exploding
They parked their police car a bit down the street
Getting out together and walking to the front door to meet

Standing silently behind the front door
With a rifle waiting to make a point even more
They approached and he opened the door
A shot rang out and one officer hit the floor

He then pointed and shot the other one
Who started to run away from the gun
He made it to the pathway on the street
And was shot again in the back not discrete

The one with the gun got in his car and drove away
A neighbour sat in the police car using the radio to say
Send an ambulance your police have been shot
There was urgency in the call to get there in a hurrying plot

Both went to hospital and survived the ordeal
We went to work that night feeling in a vulnerable deal
They found him after a while and took him to the interview room
Before interviewing him giving a cup of coffee to relax him soon

He was convicted of two counts of attempted murder
The two officers returned to work for duty further
And all of us received a lesson that day
Don't take anything for granted approaching a house that way.

© Paul Warren Poetry