Today, I am thankful for a time to mourn.
Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson
32 individuals with lives, dreams and passions as real as mine.
32 smiles, thankfully preserved in photographs.
32 stories that reveal one's hopes, fears and joys.
32 souls lost through senseless violence - here one second, gone the next.
32 questions that end with "Why?" - leading to more questions and few answers.
32 candles lit on a mild spring evening on a college campus in Virginia.
One glowing light for each heart that beat for the last time
On April 16, 2007.
For this blessing, I am grateful.
Amen.
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