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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILDREN?

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As I watch our country send it’s people away…while trying to keep others out
I wonder about the flame that warms our melting pot…when did that flame go out?

As I watch our president stir up hate and anger so talk about building a wall can begin
I wonder…what happened to our founding fathers who invited everybody in…

As I watch what the adults are doing with our world…how everything they do seems so wrong…
I wonder…what happened to the children…who were taught to get along?

As I watch a world at war with itself…filled with hate and discontent…
I wonder…what happened to the children who were once so pure and innocent?

As I watch people hate other people because of their skin…their religion…their name
I wonder…what happened to the children…once taught to treat everyone the same?

As I watch religious people use their religion to hate lesbians and gays…
I wonder what happened to those innocent children…the ones we taught to pray…

To pray for love throughout the world…to pray that war and hatred would cease…
To pray that everyone would live together in harmony and peace.

And then I remember those children…the ones who laughed…who wanted only to have fun…
Since 1999 from Columbine to Stoneman High…
we’ve been killing them with guns.

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