Why did he shoot people he did not know?
Maybe he did not know what else to do
He was told all his life he could do anything
But he couldn’t
He was told all his life how special he was
But he wasn’t
He was told all his life to follow his dreams
But what are dreams?
And the success and the money would follow
But they didn’t
He was told all his life to be himself
But what was he?
He was given noises all his life, but when
The silence fell…
He had no poetry, no prayer, no art
He looked inside himself, and nothing was there
Why did he shoot people he did not know?
*Maybe he did not know what else to do
The final line is italicized as an echo of the second line.