OPEN CARRY

For every call to arms may there be a call to books

For every loaded gun may there be a book of knowledge

For every raised gun may there be a book opened

For every shot fired may there be a page turned

For every life lost may there be a story saved.

Only then can someone’s call to arms be silenced

Loaded bullets ejected

Raised guns lowered

Shots unfired

Lives saved to write their own stories.

Only then can school doors open

Form words into ideas

Create libraries out of thoughts

Replace weapons with works of art--

Only then can minds grow. 

(To each and every one a call to open carry a book.)

© cmheuer, 2015