THEY WERE THREE


Tomorrow's dawn is far away
I have seen death this day
He has come not welcome
Yet we could not keep him at bay
The sky is darker
And the stars will not glimmer
Why is it the young must
Die so violently

They were only three
Two innocent
One with hate in her heart
A simple walk
For a meal never to be had
Why she chose these two
We are never to know

I try to forgive
I think I can now
20 years have passed
But the forgetting is not in me
I dream
I remember
The explosion that lit the day

I wonder at times
What would have become of them
If they had lived
What if she had stayed home that day
Who would I be
Would I see the world differently

That is not the way of life
I can't change that day
Or the world
So I live with my past
I accept my actions
And those around me


Michael V Hechtman