Day 11 - Bull's Eye

Hey guys! Grace Nask here with Day 11 of the April Challenge. Today we have Bull's Eye, a poem for all ages about the people seen as criminals and if that's fair all the time. So let's get to it!

Bull’s Eye

By: Grace Nask

People always mention

The pain of the targets,

But they never mention the arrow.

The arrow never wanted

To be pulled from the bow.

The arrow never asked

To become a means of destruction.

The arrow never learned

How to create a gentle peace.

And so it must fire.

Day after day

Month after month

Year after year

While each time a little piece of itself

Becomes lost in the carnage,

Until its feathers fray

And the tip dulls.

The arrow

Is not the same as when it started,

But it can’t break the cycle

Unless someone puts down the bow.

No one ever bothers.

Notch.

Pull.

Aim.

Fire.

And another target falls to the ground.