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Note: This is not one of my poems. For school, we had to do a multi-genre project, and one of the groups did the Columbine shootings. The two girls in the group wrote it, I did not. But for some odd reason I really wanted to put it on here, and the two of them allowed me to. They wrote this, and I really enjoy it. I have not altered it, and I dont know your view on this event, but I really enjoy this poem.

April 20, 1999: A spring day leaking blood and devestation
Two boys full of hatred and retaliation
A terrifiedd girl named Cassie Bernall
Alone under a table in the library hall
A gun to her head with one question asked: "Do you believe in god?"
Withour fear she answered "yes" I do
With that a trigger pulled, Cassie we'll miss you
A white coffin lowered into the dirt
Filling friends, family, and strangers with hurt
Prejudice and racists full of rage
A list of victoms now equalling a page
A candle lit for Coach Dave
And all the others he could not save
Let us not forget Eric and Dylan who committed this hideous crime
In the afterlife they'll do their time
They took their own lives after destroying others
Ruining lives of everyone, even fathers and mothers
Now we see this picture of a girl who was present on the day
When these two villians took so many lives away
Her head to the sky
Wondering why
Tears streaking her face
In depression and disgrace
She now stands as a symbol of every emotion on that day
When these two killers took 13 too many innocent lives away
It is that day thousands shed millions of tears
And it is that day we still remember, even after seven years