Did you lock your empty spirit in a cage?
Allowing it to fester into bitterness and rage?

Were you overwhelmed by the sum of your flaws?
Was there a deafening lack of applause?
Did you even take a momentary pause?
Or were you blinded to the heartache
That your actions would cause?

Did your hoodied face feign apathy
To bury truths no one could see?
Did you bring that gun to class today
To blast your way to infamy?

Instead of scrawling “F**K SOCIETY” on your car
Why not channel that emotion and pick up your guitar?
Or did you feel you were so utterly bizarre
That you had no choice but to leave a lasting scar?
*** made you let things go so far?
You weren’t destined to become just one more shooting star


written in response to the Highlands Ranch, CO shooting at the STEM school on 5/7/19

-Praying for all the lives impacted.