Tragedy Poem by Patricia Gillaspy

Your faces so bright;
Smiling joyfully full of pure love and light.
Touching us all deep within;
Without even knowing, you taught us what is is to win.
With our friends, our families, and all of those we love;
you are truly the most precious gifts from above.
The love we always knew and felt, but rarely seemed to show;
An extravagant debt you are surely owed!
Paying the ultimate price in our evil and hate;
This should have been our own definitive fate.
Your beautiful faces, full of child like faith;
Hurt amongst evil, no time to waste.
We grieve, we cling, we now show those we cherish;
What we should have been doing all along, before you perished.
A lesson taught in the most disturbing way;
When we meet in Heaven, so much love I will have to give, so many things to say.

For all eternity I will think of you, this lesson, and for the price you paid;
I promise to show all my heart, all my love everyday!