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

Police - What We Do To Each Other



How did it come to this?
A long night of despairing self-judgement
Drinking and a taste of drugs his lament
I’m finished I’ve had enough that’s all!
Shout just do it! To him his final call
A loaded rifle the gun metal taste awaits
Pull the trigger easy his fate translates.

An urgent summons is their panic
Our arrival found them all frantic
Now we ponder why you’re still alive
And the question raised how to survive
With only one side of a ruined face
And an accusing eye as last embrace.

© Paul Warren Poetry

Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: despair
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
One night we were on night shift as a police officer in Ingle Farm in South Australia and we were tasked to a house. When we walked through the front door there was two young women and a young man in the lounge all upset. We walked through to the kitchen and met an ambulance officer coming through the rear door. He directed us to the back veranda and we saw another young man lying spread out. He had shot himself in the head blowing half away and was still alive with one eye left looking at us.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Afrooz Jafarinoor 20 October 2015

A shocking sscene and even more shocking question in the end! ..Nicely penned!

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Paul Warren

Paul Warren

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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