What force on earth
could possibly have brought you here?
How could it end like this?
Were you not just out with a buddy or two,
Walking through the neighborhood?
What could have happened?
What words were said
To end your life in this violent way?
You were just 14,
Your life beginning,
You weren’t even finished with puberty,
What could cause someone in their early youth
To react with the blast of a gun?
We are not animals!
We are human beings,
We have a rational mind and soul,
Where was the heart
Of the one who did this?
What was the pointless goal?
Your mother’s heart is grief stricken tonight,
No mother will heal from this,
And for what??
what was it
that brought this about?
Why a life taken
So very young?
Did you know you were hit?
Did you lie there in shock?
Did your friends run away and desert you?
There are no words to say
As I sit here, and think
How your body lay there
Just outside my door,
Across the street that I see every day,
Near the place where I bring in the car,
Nothing is ever for certain,
Every day is a gift sent from heaven,
and for you, my young friend,
there is no earthly treasure
worth the loss of your young life amongst us.
— cfblack, 07-04-2015
Doctor Grandma 
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