about the shooter who killed
children in their innocence
no truer words could be told.

Was there evil in the play
that unfolded worlds today?
Would such evil by self succumb
to the perpetrators’ gun?

Plans were surely made
bullet-proof vest donned
munitions thoughtfully gathered
before breaking of day’s dawn.

What happened we know
yet, reasons why may never show.
Though many suffer, down that path
rarely do most let selves go.

In shock over such tragic deeds
school, community taken to knees
as gun sounds penetrate air
heard by world citizens who care.

Bullets reigned down on very young
rifle yielded by another of our own
so many lives shot on front line
of life’s newest battlefield zone.