This Poem was Submitted By: David A. Little On Date: 2001-05-12 17:20:55 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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American Tragedy

O' Columbine, thou sore upon our land, Thou festering boil from all we deem sublime, The Light and Dark have warred within thy gates,  And Evil rose to triumph for a time. O' Columbine, where Youth and Goodness fell, Who gave her young defenseless for a prey; Whose beauty lies defiled in Time's mirage In battle where no hedge or bulwark lay. O' Columbine, thou sore upon our land, We all must own our part in this thy shame. For we have loved the Dark that brought thy hurt, And kept you from the Light our Fathers claimed. But as I gazed upon the horror here, Amid the lifeless bodies of our best, I think I saw, somehow in cloud and sky, The face of God o'erlooking all this mess. O' Evil, do you think He does not know, Who framed the worlds and fashioned eye and ear? Think ye this blood you spilt will go unjudged? And Good will go uncrowned who perished here? O' Columbine, thou citadel of grief, Know this: thy havoc and thy tears Will surely be avenged by Him who sees Beyond the veil of Death that gloried here. O' Columbine, thou sore upon our land, Trust Him alone who marks the sparrow's end. These lost, when Glory's trump resounds, Will rise anew, and never fall again.

Copyright © May 2001 David A. Little


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