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Active Shooter Drills Won’t Bring You Back

A dirge of determination

Photo from the Author’s Archives.

I still see your smile
As it lights up my tears.
Remembering all the while
A feeling of loss the past 16 years.

We still do our lockdowns with dispatch;
Fearing an active shooter will pull the latch
On the classroom door, brewing another batch

Of still senseless, sickening, shamefaced fears.

School Shooting Snuffed Out a Bright Light