Threat
Threat
THE THREAT HAD COME DOZEN OF TIMES
NOW THEY STOOD BEHIND A DO NOT CROSS LINE
IN THE YEARS
THAT NEVER EXPECTED ANOTHER COLUMBINE
SO MANY SIGNALS,SO MANY SIGNS
PSYCHOLOGISTS PISSED AT NOT SEEING THE SIGNS ON TIME
WISHING IT HAD COME BEFORE THERE EYES AS BY SOMETHING DIVINE
EVERYONE SEEMED SO SHOCKED AND LOST
JOCKS FELT LIKE CRAP
LAUGHTER, WE WERE JUST HORSING AROUND
NOW BODIES LAY ON THE GROUND
PARENTS BRUSHED IT OFF HE'S JUST ACTING OUT
BODIES IN BODY BAGS WHO'S ACTING NOW
WHO? WHAT? WHERE? AND hOW?
THIS WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN
WHY THEY DIDNT BELIEVE EM NO ONE KNOWS
DEMONS RELEASED FROM A CAGE
FILLED WITH ANGER AND RAGE
WAS NEVER ON THE SAME PAGE
CALMN AND COLLECTIVE TO AN UNCONTROLLABLE RAGE
AFTER A WHILE THE BRUISES BECAME COMMONPLACE
THE ANTICIPATION WAS MORE PAINFUL
WHEN THE ACTAUL VIOLENCE CAME HE JUST COVERED HIS FACE
CALL IT TRAGEDY. CALL IT RUTHLESS. CALL IT REVENGE
MISLED YOUTH
CONTEMPLATION FROM SUICIDE TO HOMICIDE
GOT ROOKIE COPS HOLDING THEIR INSIDES
JUST LOOK AT HIS RECORD THEY WOULD SAY
NOW THER MOUTHS WERE LEFT OPEN WIDE
TEARS START ROLLING AS THEY ROLLOUT THE YELLOW TAPE
LAST GOODBYES. LAST FAREWELLS
ESCAPE FROM A LIVING HELL
A LIVING NIGHTMARE
EVEN GOT THE DEVIL FIGHTING BACK TEARS
MANY FUNERALS CAME THAT DAY
THE KILLER RAY. THE VICTIMS GOT MEMORIALS
RAY GOT EDITORIALS
THE REPORTERS CALLED HIM A MONSTER
HIS FAMILY CALLED HIM THEIR CHILD
NO TRIALS.
SO FILE.
WORDS COME FAST FROM THEIR MOUTHS
LIKE AN AUTOMATIC
GOT THEM BREATHING HARD LIKE ASTHMATICS
MORE WORK FOR THE PARAMEDICS
TH THREAT HAD COME
THE THREAT WAS REVEALED
THE THREAT WAS SADLY TRUE
16 DEATHS
16 BULLETS
ROOKIES SWEATING BULLETS
SILENCE NEVER SEEMED SO LOUD
Copyright © Amin Aziz | Year Posted 2005
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