It was evil that stalked
those halls for the innocent
as it always does.
Its hideous face masked
once again by humanity.
One of us-yet not.
Death again a coward’s blow
crushing life and hope
with its rage and hate.
Oh! Beloved ones lost,
love and joy snatched away,
our hearts left gaping wounds.
Our best words flail helplessly,
grief and pain the language
joining us as one.
Evil sees it’s work and waits
for another hiding place
within our separateness.
Oh! Youth remember evil.
Its ancient eyes revealed
within one of your own.
Make unity your shield.
Do not forget its power
to unmask evils face.
Let not lives cruelly taken
be evil’s great reward,
but memory be a flame,
A fire within you swelling
to extinguish evil’s chill.
Their deaths life’s victory.
Stephany Williams
