A Memorable Day

The music dims itself to let the gunshots be heard.
Whispering past  your ear.
Telling the tale of hatred and wrongful attention.
A boy with unfinish knowledge,
Builds a shield of unfaithful trust.
A man in the middle willing to shout praise and love into brains of the wealth of children.
Yet a trail of rusted blood falls from his face marking death.

A memorable day for the graduates of the future.
Hurt, injured from inside to the outside.
Innocence killed off from one boy's choice.
Racked with feelings of regret,
Yet shoved back from a lens that reveals and makes famous,
The story that should remain untold.

Does a memorable day have to be:
A child killing their peers for the unsettled debt
Or attention of the other.
Disposing of our teachers,
A man shedding his anger on the innocence of today.
Mothers and fathers throwing away babies, their families.

More harmful stories are evolving around the world today.
Much hatred is being filmed into wasted minds.
Nothing really new but yet publized, and attention getter they say!
Such a popular hateful world.
 

Tanya Murphy, April 1998

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