Massacre

 

 

I was there and I recall

how it felt to be a member,

of that group out in the hall

at the school in late September.

 

Who had gravitated thus

by an instinct for survival

having suffered on the bus

scorn preceding their arrival.

 

Those who know that misery

hesitate before condemning

but in secret empathy

nod in silent understanding

 

It should come as no surprise

that a soul pushed to its limit

in black fury should arise

to destroy the ones that hurt it.

 

Proud and beautiful were they.

Cruel and cutting, calculated

clever words that they would say

fragile hearts eviscerated.

 

See the panic in their eyes!

High above the weapon’s stutter,

agonizing choirs rise,

voicing screams he could not utter.

 

The killers are dead!

But not all.

 

 

Louis William Rose

May 2001

 

In memory of the Columbine High School shootings

 

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