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Why Remind Columbine?

Happy Anniversary?  
Annual "remembrance" and contemplation...
Why the highlights of these low times?
Absent minded ,heartless hate crimes
  debased insane lost children wielding weapons
 
Lets spike the ratings...point lenses at this loss
cover the whole like bitter unfeeling frost
Compassionate~~ is how they come across..
yet the exposure compounds the occurrences
amplifies minor disturbances 
Attention turns inward angst to outer turbulence

Focus on outside stimuli, asking why?
Creating worlds of total shallow souls that buy
training minds to not see beyond those lines
 making name-brand zombies quick to ostracize
  those not fitting these molds you made
  those not finding a square role to play
     not conforming
               then transforming, morphing 
                   struggling deflection defeats never absorbing

But what of the war fought at home?
Parents loathing life leaving children alone
  human nature is part inherent/ part learned
  priorities made the tide turn, not teaching made the sky burn...
       Do you believe life's value has diminished in the eyes of children
           or they have no perception of what we haven't taught them???

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