on Disaster's eve,
Disaster flies in early
on steel laden wings.
terror strikes as hard
as the anguish
that is to follow.
thirty-two victims gone
—souls lost too soon,
for their good is left
undone.
one less
—the victim of himself
many more
—untouched,
but scars enough to see.
tearless eyes
stare
blankly (mortified),
"never again"
they told us.
numb to the tragedy
of the
non-suspecting, never deserving.
not comprehending how
one man can bear
to be
Death and Terror,
then deliver upon himself.
grief is too vague
(too incomprehensible)
a concept to describe
this Horror's end.
countless held now
in Creator's hands.
countless more held
in a comforting embrace
that can never,
will never,
be enough.
"never again."
Author notes
With the Columbine anniversary on Friday, this is all too much. I just don't understand...
A contest entry
- Remember Those Murdered at Virginia Tech by jaie2007.
425 points, ended April 18, 2007, 9 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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i was reading this and i noticed a typo so i thought i would point it out because it is kinda of like if you have a booger in your nose and nobody tells you sort of thing. Great write, original phrasing but...
"for their is good left
undone."
that is supposed to be "there" not "their"
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AHHH!
Thanks for pointing that out. The line is actually wrong. It's supposed to say "for their good is left undone." I never noticed that...
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Instead of thinking about Columbine when I was reading this, I thought of the latest shooting at Virginia Tech. It happened today. I'm not too sure of the exact statistic on the dead and wounded. None the less, this was a powerful write. It is true that we always say "never again", like we will ever learn from past mistakes.
...I just scrolled up and realized this was written for a new contest about Virginia Tech. Gah, I can be very unobservant a lot of the time.
Good luck in your contest, as always your poetry is amazing.
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If only we'd finally remember that "never again." I'm getting sick of people having to die... Sad times. Thanks for reading.
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nothing is ever enough to ... help with our grief of loosing loved ones.
blessed be.
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Why should we?
I don't understand either, because this came about so suddenly and no one even suspected that evil lay within the walls of the campus. This is strong and powerful. -
Can we all just rub out April off the calendar? Okla. City, Dr. King, Columbine and now this? Thank you for the insight and now your poem. Hard-hitting words, stanzas and lyrics! I felt them pounding my face relentlessly with anger, rage and outcry! "Not comprehending how, one man can bear to be Death and Terror, then deliver upon himself" Impossible to grasp that ONE BASTARD did all of this!!!! I'm sorry. That creature will never be called a man by me. Fantastic piece!!!
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thanks for the comment.
That's another thing I don't want to try to understand: how mankind can do so much harm to itself. I agree whole-heartedly, he's a bastard.
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