Death

For the lost students from the shooting at Virginia Tech last year:



Death: A Poem by Jessica Barker

Death
Cut off
A void

Death
Missed
Mourned

Death
Struck down
Caved in

Death
Lost one
Unknown

Death
Key to life
Carrying on

Death
Vulnerable
Incapable

Death
Vacuum
Suffocate

Death
Dark red
Ended there

Death preys on those
Who do not want
The Death that is
Not rightly theirs
And Death holds inside
All the weak and forlorn
Never letting go
Until they turn
Death…