#BlaPoWriMo: Hands Up, Don’t Shoot

Raise your hands above your head.
Pray, he doesn’t see your wallet,
doesn’t mistake it for a gun,
doesn’t pull the trigger five times,
five more when you turn to run.

© 2016 Nortina Simmons

Let me know I'm not talking to myself.

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.