To Matthew

By Beverly Greene

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A normal day and
an average guy
turned out to
change the world.
Could you have know?
Could you have seen
what your name
would come to represent?

Have you been forgetten
or were you never known at all?
A mystery of murder,
a lesson in blood,
a martyr by chance,
a name only known.

If you could have known
what horror lay ahead,
would you have volunteered
your life for change?
Would it have brought
you some degree of peace
in your final breaths?

What were your last thoughts
as you lay bleeding, alone?
Was it your mother's face
you saw behind the tears?
Was it your life energy
slipping away to the fears?
Was it the horror
of your present
or the loss
of your future?
Of goodbyes left unsaid?
Of promises left unfulfilled?
Or were your thoughts
filled with hope
and determined strength?

No one came to comfort you
until it was too late,
but a country mourns.
There can be no justice.
A life lost can not be regained.
But there can be a renewed fire
where your flame died.

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