Everywhere, today, the school was broken
Broken in fragmented silent seats
Assembly became an emergency token
Crumbled and clumsy, cacophony coffin

God bless his soul is too easily spoken
questions need answers
and everyone seeks

Why did he do it? It’s a human compunction
to want to know - why did the eaglet
break his own wings?
Why did the eaglet? Why did the eaglet?

And when all is over
and school is all out
we will see
even
the ants
on my classroom floor
were affected by this
shout