The trees outside their classroom door
so recently were green.
Now they all are bare and brown;
great evil they have seen.
I cannot, will not, speculate
what drove that youth insane:
or why he murdered children
then put a bullet in his brain.
The Season now is dreary;
Christmas greetings go unsaid;
Presents never to be opened
and even Hope seems dead.
A grateful Father hugs his girl,
Her classmates all are dead.
Their classroom is an abattoir:
Finger-painted Red.
Dec 14, 2012
Dec 14, 2012 at 10:20 PM UTC
The trees outside their classroom door
so recently were green.
Now they all are bare and brown;
great evil they have seen.
I cannot, will not, speculate
what drove that youth insane:
or why he murdered children
then put a bullet in his brain.
The Season now is dreary;
Christmas greetings go unsaid;
Presents never to be opened
and even Hope seems dead.
A grateful Father hugs his girl,
Her classmates all are dead.
Their classroom is an abattoir:
Finger-painted Red.
This is about the mass ****** of children in a Connecticut kindergarden.
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