go for a run

Image from March for Our Lives (https://www.facebook.com/marchforourlives/)

I don’t know anymore
how to keep telling my sons
please just
please just
please go
outside and go for a run
and not have the words
catch in my throat like
a car accident drive by
like the morning after
a hurricane
like a gaudy gold watch on a white
wrist
like a reminder that
when my sons go run
they get a sunburn
not a bullet hole
because when my sons
go run
I never wonder if they’ll
come back alive