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The Fair Tragedy
After seeing that smoke quickly fill the air,
And the noise that seemed a little too loud.
We were just walking back
He screams sounded like the sirens,
On their way downtown.
And everyone just walking by
Trying to ignore her screams
But they couldn’t block her desperate cries
They had lives, they said,
And meetings, and lunches,
And a phone call that they couldn’t make.
Four girls that just had to stand there
Their hearts racing, their minds tracing
What had just happened?
Standing next to the crater
You made with your toe
While your mind confronted your soul
With your ears proving its’ point,
Driving it home. She was alone.
The screaming, the screaming
The fault of those people
The weakness, forever
She’s almost dead now
Her screams, her cries, broken
By the blood now entering her lungs.
You just had to stand there
Your heart racing, your mind tracing
What had just happened?
Just a few more short whimpers
Then, “it’s too late now.”
We couldn’t do anything
It happened so fast.
She’s stopped bleeding now, but you’re bleeding for her
Her pain displaces your heart
We saw her life cut short
Just to teach us a lesson,
One that we will never forget,
But will certainly leave a young girl to die
As she’s screaming and screaming again.
We just had to stand there
Our hearts racing, our minds tracing
What had just happened?
