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A single black rose

Lies before his room

Where a psychopath

Began the road to his doom.



What drove him

To do this in this place

Was it the teasing

The humiliation all his days?



How we did fail him

By refusing to see

Then not acting

To get the help he needs.



The world will now never know

So a single black rose

To mark the place

Of this lost soul.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Cho was a troubled young man, which is a given. The system identified him as such but didn't followup to insure he got the help he needed. As children we didn't think teasing and humiliating other kids was harmful...it was all in good fun...unless you were on the receiving end. This poem was written out of grief for those he killed, but also as atonement for those who failed him by not getting him the help he so needed...thus the lost soul. The loss of a single life is horrible as there is no way of knowing what contribution to society was lost by the loss of that single life.  

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©19 April 2007 - 5:15pm — hhickson
19 April 2007 - 8:17pm — yellowspecks
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I like how you saw both sides of this story and were not afraid to state them.
excellent poem. Rae

19 April 2007 - 6:32pm — Sabrina Lapal (not verified)
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Wow that is a really good poem. I can almost feel the pain that he went through. I never was the one getting teased, yet i wasnt the one teasing either. I look forward to your next poem and id love to hear from you.

oh and i loved the part that went

How we did fail him
By refusing to see
Then not acting
To get the help he needs.

It hits hard if you read my poems you'll know why!