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Change
Reflections on violence and the school shooting in
San Diego
By Trevaj Siller
 Man, another school shooting. I wonder what is going to
come of this? More celebrities doing stop the violence public service
announcements? More schools getting new metal detectors instead of
school supplies? Maybe the NRA will come up with some new gun trigger
locks that don't work effectively.
Or how about this: what if Congress passes a law to have the parents of
these wild teens incarcerated for the wrongs their kids have done. Boy,
that would be the cause of a rapid decline in the number of people
having kids.
The youth of today have gone crazy and are too far
out there to be saved. Some of our elders have given up on us, and the
generation X (and Y) title they gave my generation is proof of that.
See, something is wrong here. The youth feel that they have been
misguided and lead astray toward an almost certain untimely death, and
the old folks have simply given up hope.
Somewhere down the
line somebody stopped doing or forgot what their job was. Violence is a
learned action — you don't just flip out one day unless you have
been tormented or something.
If parents and children were more
involved with one another as friends and aware of each other's feelings,
we'd be better off and far less violent. We as a whole — both young
and old — need to come together and bridge the gaps that have
continued to grow wider over time.
Lets make a change,
change, change before it's to late
— words from the flowem "Change" by The Starchild.
— Trevaj Siller is a poet and writer for Youth In Control.
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