She was an attractive, single woman
who lived in her house alone.
Crime and break ins had risen
in her city
that prompted her to buy
a gun for protection.
Her friends, opposed to guns,
thought she was being paranoid.
One night she heard someone
breaking into her house.
She grabbed and loaded her gun
and yelled I’ve got a gun.
The man trying to break into her
apartment yelled I’ve got one too.
The air exploded with gunfire
and the smell of gun powder.
When the shots died down,
one of them was dead,
a serial killer who planned on
raping, torturing and killing her.
Bob Boyd