Police - What Can Happen And What We Do To Each Other Poem by Paul Warren

What people do to each other is sad to see
After a son attempts to shoot himself in the head
And the only words his mother has for his girlfriend is
'Are you happy now for what you have done'
Three friends go for a drive down Eight Mile Creek Road
And two beat the other to death with a tyre iron

A mother and a father with three children
Keep the children in their room with a live wire across the door
A spurned boyfriend kills his ex-girlfriend's family
And then goes to the police station with a knife in his stomach
An illicit drug addict goes to his doctor looking for drugs
And when he doesn't get them stabs her 17 times leaving an orphan

A man having an affair goes to his business premises and shoots his lover
Then tries to shoot himself but just blows part of his head away and lives
What you have left is just a lot of questions with no answers

© Paul Warren Poetry