God Rest You, Megan Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Megan Meier who had thought found via MySpace,
Found hatred, scorn, nothing at all good in its place.
The internet can be useful to bring people together,
My wife, Judy and I are a testament to that,
Too bad Megan thought she was emailing a real person,
Josh Evans was not, the fictitious boyfriend treated her like a mat.
Megan would not see her fourteenth birthday,
Because a cruel hoax had been played upon her,
By parents of an acquaintance she knew,
The parents figured Megan to blame for making fun of their daughter.
By rights Megan had issues, but who doesn’t when you’re that age?
What we have here is Shakespearean tragedy in a high tech format,
The parents who played the hoax on Meier,
Their daughter is forced their lives through her fate,
Megan was Juliet, and who will take the fall by Romeo,
Surely not the computer or MySpace, but the fall is due,
We’ll just have to sit and wait.


Lori Drew was indicted today by Federal Grand Jury,
Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis was charged with one count of
conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without
authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl.
That should make parents worry;
about these cruel intentions seem legally blurry.
This is going to the s Supreme Court I bet,
There is precedent so sad for Megan but it the end the Congress will pass a law,
Megan’s Law that will be fitting tribute to life that was cut short,
A life we will not forget.

(5-15-08)