A party heard two shots fired,
said they were inside a house.
Was that a traumatic event,
sleepless nights, haunted dreams
to come?
The news crew, probably others, too,
arrived at the scene, waited, watched.
What happened they could have covered
but did not?
A son was there, whether rightfully or not,
shots fired toward him by his own father.
The expectation of parenting never stops
so could he have lived through that
without being harmed?
A father fired shots near his son.
Was he sober, drugged, insane,
rational and at the end of his rope?
He did not sever the parent/child bond.
Was he not damaged?
The egomaniacal Chief of Police
found another way to wedge his face
before the media. Did not the city, the citizens,
suffer from this?
Did the English language not suffer
in the writing of this story?
Who was harmed? Who owes amends?
Were there really no victims?
