A haunting tribute to the Virginia Tech victims written by Evanmusic and posted on You Tube. He writes:
It is to send a message of healing”:
The TV, replaying like a broken record.
The image, it’s numbing, another record broken.
More questions, no answers, left to imagination
Alarming, disturbing, what are the implications?
All as one and all at once, we ask why they had to dieThere’s no sunset in Virginia
The Earth is standing still
The mighty may have fallen
The pain never will
There’s no sunset in Virginia
The pain is in our eyes.
But if there is no nightfall
The sun will never riseThe candles are burning, blocking out the darkness
By thousands they flicker, light and sorrow linger
The silence is deafening, reliving consternation
Reminder, that violence cut short their aspirations
Now as one, we take a vow: protect the light for better days to come (refrain)All as one we’ll look up to the sky to remember all the ones we left behind.
As the sun begins to set the sun will set us free.
You Tube — and humanity — at its best...
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.