Posted by The Faceless on October 08, 2002 at 02:59:36:
One Shot...
I am more than just a number,
more than just the face on the
6 o clock news.
I have a name and a life.
I have a family that loves me.
I have people that care about me,
even now.
I am more than THAT NUMBER on my toe,
I am more than there book or tv movie, more
than a piece of interactive data on their website.
I am a real person. I do not deserve this,
I did nothing more than mind my own business.
Then again I can SEE the logic in how that might lead someone to want to harm me.
I am more than a victim, I am more than the DECEASED,
more than a way for that deranged coward to get his joy joy jollies off at the moment
of my death and media frenzy to come.
I was wife to one, mother to another,
I was daughter to yet another and teacher to many more.
You would sum me up, all that I am,
all of my many years in a simple number on my toe.
You would call me one of the silenced, place me in an order and sterlize my every move.
That is what he would do that bastard.
The coward that swine. He took from me everything I had, most
of which I would have given if just asked,
but NO ask he did not.
He took with the contraction of his finger the life here that God had given
me.
He will call me his 3rd,
and you will say " She was at the wrong place at the wrong time "
When is it the wrong time to mow your lawn. or sit at a park bench, or wait for a bus ?
I ask you is there a certain time that to fill your gas tank or to purchase groceries, obviously not
since he is here.
No worries ofcouse, you will forget time will move on and life will be. Then yet I am
only but a number.
Damn you I am more than just a number,
I am the love the life the happinees the laughter the need of many around me.
Thanks to the perception , thanks to the coward I am the loss and the sadnees
I am the grief of all whom I have cared so dearly for.
I look at you and say why, at our perceptions as a people.
Not until I am you will you know who I am,
nor til you have humbled your selves from your seats on high will you know
the sadnessog what we have truly lost, more than just my life
you have lost a piece of your own...