Victoria Soto

* This poem is in memory of Victoria Soto, one of the teachers who died in the Sandy Hook shooting. Victoria hid students in a closet to protect them from the gun fire and died trying to protect them. Victoria loved life and was a selfless person. The gates of Heaven open as a beautiful woman enters. She is holding boxes filled with white doves to go out to the world. As she walks further into Heaven she sees a line of notes saying: Thank you and We Love you. She follows those notes to the end, And greets her students with a hug. The woman says to them, No need to thank me, you were worth taking the risk. She then gives each child a dove to hold. She says, write a message to share with the world. One , Two, Three Each child lets go of a dove with a message. The woman asks, What message did you write? The children say, That a beautiful angel named, Victoria, has entered the gates of Heaven.