A young boy has been shot,
he’s dead,
a police force became another list,
not the boy,
no list attached,
a living human being,
now dead,
shot to death,
after wielding motive suggests
he was suicidal,
didn’t want a recital,
simply wanted to die,
or at least in the mind of a boy,
thought it might work,
wanted something,
wanted someone
to know,
his hurt,
and now …
nobody knows,
but we all realize
he’s dead.