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Anabelle Lee on Nov 11, 2008

Tags: bernall, cassie, death, God, Life, meaningful

This is a poem about my hero Cassie Bernall. She went to Columbine High School and was shot there after affirming her belief in God. This is also a tribute to her untimely yet meaningful death.

“Does what I do make a difference?”
She asked one day
Distraught and dismayed
“teenagers…”
her mother muttered
shrugged it off she put it in the back of her mind
but she didn’t know that this was the last of her time
so to school she went
pondering her question
knowing not what lie ahead…
a deadly beast
arched to attack
preying on the loving
the kind
the pure
guns don’t kill people, people do
So she would learn in a moment or two
He asked her a question
Simple and true
“Do you believe in god?”
and she answered “I do.”
That day she made a difference with her martyrdom true
The truth of her death is in your hands will she have died in vain
This young girl so wrongfully slain
Do what she would’ve referenced
Make a difference

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Darlene McFarlane on Nov 11, 2008
This is very touching, Anabelle. The fact that this piece comes from someone who had a personal attachment to this disaster makes it even more precious. I look forward to reading more of your work. I am adding you to my friends list so I won’t miss any of your submissions.

Keep writing,
Darlene
Jo Bingham on Nov 11, 2008
Tragic yet heroic as you so aptly puy. I read of many young ones who have had to pay the same price for a similar question. One 6 yr old was killed not for her response to a question but for refusing to spit on a Bible which others before her did (acknowledging that it was a book and the power was what they held in their heart) but that child had a conviction in her heart and spoke volumes to all around her in her last moments. So many heros, so little awareness… we can be so blinded by our freedoms.
M on Nov 11, 2008
this is super cool, i love it

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