Empty Corridors (remembering a year ago..)

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Open Poetry #31

Empty Corridors (remembering a year ago..)

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

0 posted 2004-04-14 12:42 PM

Fourteen years old
he has given sorrow
to those who loved him

and those who could
not reach him in time....

in time to find out
what torture he held
inside

that would make him
hurt enough to take
his own life

and leave
the lives of others
in dissaray

a gun shot heard
and then another

and death rang out
through the halls
of the school

and a child cried
and a mother prayed

Dear Lord
hear their cries
heal their hearts

and let the echoes
fade
into the sounds
of empty corridors...

life was taken today

Lord in your name,
we pray.....

{So they will not be forgotten....}

It's better than I could have planned..
it's made me who I am...
{Trace Adkins}