"Sadness"
A Tribute to the slain children
by Alice Bateman
People shooting children
What is happening to our world
These things just didn't happen
When I was a little girl
We're afraid to send our children
Off to Church or school
Tell me, when did they forget
There is a Golden Rule?
When did hate become so rampant
Why'd the bullets start to fly
All the parents losing children
It just makes me want to cry
When did this world get so violent
Has it always been this way?
Please join me now in silence
As we bow our heads and pray
For the souls of all the children
Who've been taken from our care
For the hearts of all the parents
Whose deep pain we try to share
And for all the wounded people
Who turn to violent means
To show the world the anger
In their souls that are not clean
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