Keep The Peace

Still as clear
As yesterday -
Today and all it's
Pain.
I never will
Forget that day
How there was no one
Left to blame.
A day when children
Left for school
Like any other morning
But by the end
Twelve less returned
And set the country
Mourning.
A teacher was lost
That day, too,
And countless more
Lives changed.
I remember it like
It just happened
My sense of safety
Ripped away.
Yet it is not my tragedy
To hold and feel and fear.
It's that of those
Who lived it through -
It's that of those
Who are still here.