Saying No To Prom

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In Dedication

Took her away

red and white lights flashing

a speedy ride to making 

her heart beat again

nothing was making sense

 

told me to step back

and my legs didnt work

and my brain gave out

and so did my knees

 

I woke up and she was gone

but they said they had her 

in surgery with gloved men

they went to school for this

 

I went to school for this

and this is how it goes

teachers look away

as the kid stabs her

 

saying no to a prom date 

shouldn't be signing your

own death wish

yet here we are one less. 

 

They say the knife was on him

that he planned for this senario

isn't that funny

all the newspapers cry about his lost career

 

what about a dead girl

the girl who died at his hands

because he couldn't take a no

didn't understand why she wouldn't go

 

a boyfriend! 

He yelled like it was her fault

that he had asked her

even though she was in a relationship

 

so the knife stabbed

and she died

and the dead girl is mourned

but he is idolized

 

what a smart boy

what a life he would have had

too bad she said no

doesn't know what she is missing.

 

Missing? Missing! 

Missing a life is what it is

men on a rampage

and we accept it as inevitable. 

 

Nothing makes sense as they say

that they lost her

I lost her

and I couldn't say goodbye. 

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