Thursday, March 13, 2008

Ballad

Hiding in the classroom
Thinking of his plan
His anger overflowing
Their lives so close at hand

Merely sitting with her daughter
Teaching her to read
She's the perfect target
How he longs to make her bleed

He stands up in the classroom
Clinging to his gun
Pointed at her head
As everybody runs

Raising up the shot gun
Sounding like a bomb
Just then her little girl steps in
Yelling "Don't hurt my mom"

Dodging past the woman
The bullet hits the girl
Falling to the ground
The room starts to whirl

Horror arose his face
As he realized his mistake
As wrong girl lay on the floor
A life too precious he did take

1 comment:

k_R1n said...

This is lovely writing, enforces the saddness of the event. The rhyming works perfectly.