By Duke
Date: 2002 Apr 27
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WHY?

No no!  Not again!  This just cannot be!!
17 lives dead, horrific travesty!

The love of dear family, oh sweetness and joy,
Destroyed in a minute by a madman's sick ploy.

Our friends are no more, our parents lament,
The sadness, the loss, we children unspent.

A safe haven?  A school?  Another happiest of days.
A wave of foul hatred, cruelest madness displayed,

Now nothing but sorrow and lifetimes to cry,
Each day, every moment, the nightmares, why?

What could have caused this?  Was it something we said?
Why did you kill us?  You once were our friend.

The answer, the reason, we beseech you, please tell,
To Heaven we go, but for you, straight to Hell.

It's happened before, it will happen again,
Lest all of us change, lest people get sane.

Please pray for us, please?  As we shall for you.
To pray that such tragedy - never again come true.