A body in the bay <br />not yet started to decay <br /> <br />a shadowed figure <br />pushed over by the trigger <br /> <br />Two people resting at the park <br />their bodies found in the dark <br /> <br />A teenager on her bed <br />shot right though her head <br /> <br />A boat abandoned in the water <br />this young girl someone's daughter <br /> <br />a boy locked with his doom <br />now this place, a bloody tomb <br /> <br />a family of two, not yet three <br />a daddy and mommy to be <br /> <br />a gun lies close by.<br /><br />Kelsey Bachmeier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-gun-lies-close-by/