Newtown Requiem

to bloomLet this day approach silently
bow our heads again
try to remember what happened
How did this become a tragedy?
Should you blame his mother?

Even the broken mental health care system?
Blame even the violent video games?
The Second Amendment?
badly controlled gun control laws?
No.
Remember those lives
the ones cut off
before they had the chance
to bloom
Recall only the bravery
of both victims great and small
Consider them at the end
of what remained
in Pandora's Box
Hope's great green gem
left sparkling in the boxes' bottom
Reach in and take it out
plant it, knowing that
it will grow, covering over
what Evil left behind