Forgotten Tomorrow

This past Wednesday a woman

Chauacia Lashell Meekins

Was shot and killed while

Working the drive-thru window

At a local eatery- Steak n’ Shake

There was a disagreement

About an order of onion rings

And someone in the car opened

Fire killing Chauacia and wounding

Another employee

She was 32 and working multiple jobs

So senseless these killings

Every day in North St Louis

The death toll climbs

I don’t want her to be forgotten

Just another headline that’s

yesterday’s news

So I wrote this poem

Against the shooter

Who they haven’t found

And probably never will

For all these senseless killings

We should rise up

And say enough is enough

No more funerals