Category : Poems

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I wake up to the sound of gun fire and as soon as I do, I go back to sleep.
The loud bangs like music in my ears, it's all too familiar.
Until it's not.
I hear the knock but I don't get up.
It's persistent so I have to.
With sleepy eyes and weary feet I drag myself to the door. 
"Who is it?" I ask but there is no reply. 
I open anyways, not thinking of any harm coming to my territory. 
Five of them, all men twice my size rush in almost at once. 
I try to say something but my mouth can no longer form words. 
For what seems like two hours I've been standing by my own  door watching men with guns and machetes making plans about my neighborhood like I am invisible. 
They finally leave the same way they came.
I stand for at least twenty minutes before I move. 
I don't know what else to do than to go on my knees and say
"THANK YOU JESUS"