No one remembers today,
What happened in 1999
I guess we are all too distracted
To remember Columbine.
Another fateful day
One thats sure to soon be forgot
Because after Virginia Tech
No one remembers who else got shot.
But I remember that day
More then any other in my mind
It was more then just a day
It was when "active shooter" was defined.
Police officers at our school
And they wouldn't tell us why
I guess they didn't think we'd get it
But they knew they couldn't lie.
As I got home that day,
And turned on the TV
Finding the news wasn't hard
But what I saw just couldn't be.
In a town right next to mine
Something had happened I could tell
But my mind was in too much shock
To realize Littleton had become hell.
Columbine High-school,
Something had happened that never should.
They were right, we didn't get it
And no one ever would.
As the night went on
The numbers slowly rose.
Eleven, twelve, and thirteen.
And that's all they would disclose.
The next day two names emerged
Eric and Dylan, they would say.
They were the ones responsible
This was how they showed their dismay.
Why they did it?
No one knows, all we can do is guess
But here we are once again
Stuck cleaning up their mess.
Author notes
Just thinking about it. I was in 4th grade.
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I hate this Scabby fucker. Read everything these two fucking kids did, and how much pain THEY caused, and then tell me you feel bad because they got their FEELINGS hurt.
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Sad
Everyone hates me for this, but I am on Eric and Dylan's side. You aren't cleaning up their mess either. Society failed them. We made them turn on us, it makes sense... People don't but that much thought into it though, they just want to blame music an video games and just dismiss them as 'bad kids.' They had reasons. Only some people can understand why they did it, and I haven't found anyone else up until this day. It's sad, so, so, sad. Not for Rachel Scott, or any of the others, but for Eric and Dylan. They died in pain. -
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Really?
So Rachel Scott deserved to die? An innocent girl that did nothing but love? An innocent girl that stood up for people? An innocent girl that had her whole life ahead of her to change the world? What about Isaiah Shools? The last words he EVER heard were racial slurs. Did he deserve that? No. Even Eric and Dylan's best friend said it was wrong and that they were sick.
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I was in sixth grade...uh, it was horrible. everyone was so frightened...great write. I think you did a good job with the rhyming...nothing sounded forced..it all flowed very well
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Wow. great write. All too often tragic happenings are forgotten, replaced by other tragic happenings. This was very well written. Thanks for sharing.
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Lest we ever forget
April has become a month of death instead of a time of rebirth.
The school tragedies are more than I can bear to comtemplate. When you add the terror bombing in Oklahoma City and the WTC, it all is unbearable. What an awful world in which to be born.
Painful but well done poem.
- joanne
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There will always be another, and another to follow that, until society learns how to treat those that are different from the "norm", those that are ostracized for being loners, or those bullied because others feel better when they put someone down. The weak and the poor, the less pretty and the overweight or too thin. Who knows why some need to make someone feel bad to make themselves feel so much better. There will always be these incidents that take us back a notch, makes us think, but then forget once the media has let it go. Good write -easy to read and understand.
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I Remember
All of Oklahoma remembers.
Your poem is much needed at this time. Sometimes I feel that way about the OKlahoma City bombing. Pray my child for a peaceful world and an understanding world. Far too many of these terrible tragedies are happenning and possibly soon it will be so common place that we honestly don't remember.
Bravo on your write dear person. I was only a few blocks away when the bombibg took place. Very sad and scary.
Keep writing as your message is clear. The word under this girl's eye says "lost". That you are not. You and your words are strong. We need you.
God's touch
Jeri
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wow
This has to be so very difficult for everyone..I remember that day....Its not one I will ever forget...with the deaths of the students and teachers from VT still so very fresh in our minds..know that within my heart the prayers still remain for the loss of life so harshly taken away from the students of Columbine, and the innocence that was taken away from you all..
I can promise you no one has forgotten..
Wonderful write....thank you for this piece..
Peace
~M~
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