A prolonged gun battle,

everything would rattle,

on-lookers herded out the way like cattle,

two policemen were killed,

and five others wounded,

as the pain remained,

later pathologists discovered

that one of the gunmen sustained

a lethal heart wound,

death was coming soon,

yet he managed to remain ambulatory

for close to an hour,

terror reigned, in a mist of a shower,

firing at police as on-lookers cower,

the shooter attempted to escape,

the bullet in his heart continued to scrape,

then finally collapsing to the ground,

the police gathered around,

quietly they watched,

death came, and no one made a sound.