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SANDY HOOK
by W. Mahlon PurdinI just sat here crying this morning.
The names haunted me.
So young. So deserving.
Everyone right where they should have been.
Stomped out.
As if they were nothing. Nothing at all.
A school founded in 1956
With a long history of safe children
Shattered by the fingers of a young killer
As they carefully loaded high impact rounds
One after the other, a child's name on each one:
Charlotte, James, Daniel, Grace, Olivia,
Emilie, Josephine, Jack, Ana,
Noah, Dylan, Caroline, Madeleine, Jessica,
Catherine, Avielle, Chase, Benjamin, Jesse
And Allison. All loaded into magazines
And readied for use. Six women, all hero educators
Were loaded in there, too:
Rachel, Dawn, Nancy, Lauren, Mary, and Victoria
The guns and those bullets did exactly
What they were designed to do.
The killings stole the future,
The past, and the present too.
I just sat here crying this morning.
12/17/2012 Posted on 12/17/2012
Copyright © 2026 W. Mahlon Purdin
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Charlie Morgan on 12/17/12 at 06:55 PM ...W. Mahlon, a wonderful word pictograph; i'm not that strong; i'm still in denial that this IS the Biblical past and not today...we've come so far and yet still still meanness in the world. |
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