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Kevin Craig<br />
Do you remember?<br />
Do you remember?<br />
How we’d walk and promise we’d be forever?<br />
Laugh and smile under the summer sun<br />
How we’d run<br />
Without thinking how life would be<br />
Do you remember?<br />
The morning snaps, sipping our iced coffees<br />
Finding relief in the AC of school<br />
Saying goodbye, kisses on cheeks<br />
English, Spanish, Math flew by<br />
Friends, gossip, high school life<br />
Never thought I’d cry<br />
Here –<br />
Here was our safe place<br />
Home to our trophy cases,<br />
Witness to awkward teen affection<br />
Our haven of learning<br />
And then it started burning<br />
The screams, the shouts, we shut our ears<br />
This was what our parents had feared<br />
The cries for help<br />
Extinguished by shots from hell<br />
Darkness caressed us as we hid<br />
My only thought, “how could this happen?”<br />
To us, we were perfectly average<br />
Now, our bodies, my friends, maybe you<br />
They laid scattered<br />
A million panicked, thoughts raced through my mind<br />
Is this what we deserved?<br />
Whose nerve did we strike?<br />
Civility + You<br />
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