Those Bleeding Scars
The young lives he violently took
and the blood he spilled
on his quick and armed hands...
are those permanent scars
for all who lost friends
or relatives in Norris
and Johnston Hall
on the campus grounds
in Blackburg,VA ;
this is the deadiliest massacre,
after Columbine,in the U.S.A;
but what motivated Cho to buy guns?
The fellow student fired more than
one hundred seventy rounds,
and gunned down his own;
without pity or remorse,
he continued his unjustified rampage:
reveling in the premeditated carnage;
then he shot himself...
as police searched the floors!
What did he accomplish,
and what kind of anguish
he inflicted on his parents
and others who unconsolingly grieve?
Did he do all that for a moment's glory,
or because was wicked and full of fury?
We may never know an answer...that
he has taken to his grave!
Those bleeding scars can be healed,
if some kind of forgiveness is given;
how can I say to them," Forgive him! "...
when he killed the essence of their dream?
Copyright © Andrew Crisci | Year Posted 2007
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