Words of fear
Deafening gunshots
Quaking blasts
Boom boom they sound like fireworks
And a stranger offers me a sour candy
Violence consuming humanity
Screams of insanity
Bleeding people, broken hearts
I wish they were just fireworks
Chew chew I chew the sour candy
Flower fields blackened and dead
My favourite colouring book's pages are red
I am scared and underfed
Gulp gulp I swallow the sour candy
Anger flows through the streets
Sadness spills out as tears
Loss is all that they have conquered
It makes me sick, just like the sour candy
Scary men on the roads
Who look like the monsters in my books
I hide under my bed and cry
Mama had always warned me
Against the stranger with the sour candy.
