HEADLINES

HEADLINES, in memory of Columbine
(c) 1999 Stephanie Durand

How many more headlines must we hear
How many more children will run in fear
While around the world the school bell's ring
Another child is carried away on angel's wings

They can read, they can spell, they can write
But do they know
Thou shall not kill,
They shall love thy neighbor

They can read, they can spell, they can write
But do they know how to survive,
do they know wrong from right

How many more headlines must we hear
How many more children will run in fear
While around the world the school bells ring
Another child is carried away on angel's wings

Let our children teach us...
to see what is in their troubled eyes
To hear the words they are speaking...in our ears
Are we really listening to their fears?

Open our hearts to the message
Open our hearts to your troubled children
Teach our children to teach us
Teach us to see their troubled eyes
Are we listening to them?
Their words are not lies

They can pass the tests....
but can they survive?
Are you listening to what they're telling you
Are you listening to their troubled lives?
Open our hearts to what they are telling us
Open our eyes to the words that they say
They are not lies,
Can they survive?

How many more headlines must we hear
How many more children ...will run...in fear
While around the world
Our school bells' ring
Another child...should not be carried away
on Angels' wings

Listen to our children...
hear their cries, their troubles, their fears
and how to see beyond their troubled eyes.

Guide us to the resources, the ways, the knowledge
we need ...to be the mentors
we are all need to be....