Put a Blue Light in Your Window

Put a blue light in your window

for those officers in blue

who were gunned down having coffee.

It’s the least that we can do.

It’s a way of showing honor

to their families who are left

who must face the coming season

feeling lost, alone, bereft.

On these silent nights of sorrow

as we take time to be still

that blue light in the window

will recall those who were killed.

Each with uniform allegiance

to the force they proudly served

died committed to our safety

and the laws they helped preserve.

So… to the green and red of Christmas

let us add the color blue.

It will say to those now fallen

we will never forget you.