A spirit of evil snaps its jaws,
Violently invades the campus.
One student aims and shoots, another falls.
Innocent blood carries life from the body,
Seeps tragedy into earthly and supernal realms.
Student screams saturate EE walls and beyond.
The deluded murderer exists the scene,
Gives himself up to arrest without protest.
Police handcuff the savage at gunpoint.
Locals and countless alums recoil in disbelief,
Grieve the sad truth with anger and disgust.
Unbridled sorrow descends.
Shock and dismay echo through time and space,
Reverberate the terror, the horror.
Mournful woe cries out for the Almighty’s Presence.
* * *
Lord, supply strength
for those who grieve;
Convict the assassin
and lead him to repentance.
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