Recall, I do, that fateful day
How blithely I was on my way
Just as many women are
Unconcerned and unaware
So many lives that day were shattered
Such promise broken, fulfillment tattered
For hate was running through a heart
It festered so, till ripped apart
The fragile sense of surety
Of noxious superiority
In halls of upright vim and learning
He brought hot death, cursed and burning
He hunted women as if game
He killed those he had come to blame
Dark fantasies wrought now came real
Their innocence was his to steal
Ungraspable, how this could be
These bright lights snuffed, so viciously
Our lives and country, wholly changed
Mindful concord dulled the pain
This tragedy brought slender salve
We stood as one with brief resolve
Yet here we are, just more of same
Poison with insipid name
Pretend to care yet wrath not gone
Even stronger fires burn on
Implore I must, do not forget
The challenge of contempt be met
On this day, nerve be not doubted
The names of fourteen women shouted
Though hoarse our voice, for rasped with strain
We must not let hate rise again!
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