My Scars

[forceworks]

I cannot forget

Comments

[suesniffsglue]

Beautiful post. As soon as I realized what it was about I got chills.

[spydielives]

Lovely.

Bravo! Bravo!

[libra_dragon]

Very powerful and moving post.
You have a way with words.

[lordrexfear]

Although your subject matter because of my background and personality never touched me, this was still extremely well written and conveyed it's importance and heartfelt emotions though.

You got narrative, meter, emotion and still found time to be nerd/internet geeky and throw in a link... a quality respectful link, but still... a link.

Good work.

[forceworks]

I started writing this poem and decided I needed to include a picture of the monument I've never seen. I easiyl found the website I linked and began looking - and crying. I have a lot of friends at VT. I was there two weeks before this occured. I decided the monument alone wasn't enough, that whole site needed to be shared.

Answering poetry with poetry

[hopefulnebula]

April is the cruelest month.

Re: Answering poetry with poetry

[forceworks]

I am not familiar with what you are referencing.

Re: Answering poetry with poetry

[hopefulnebula]

It's the first line of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland."

Though the italics are mine.

(In short, I was trying to express solidarity through poetry. Yours isn't the only April school massacre.)

Re: Answering poetry with poetry

[forceworks]

No, no it is not. April seems to have more than its fair share of tragedies. Perhaps there is so much rain in April not to bring May's flowers, but because the month weeps for what has been lost in its time.