We Will Prevail
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On this second anniversary of the VT Massacre, no time has healed the families’ wounds and no words or condolences have brought back the fallen. Virginia Tech’s Distinguished Professor, poet and activist, Nikki Giovanni, eased the pain with her convocation 2 years ago and her words still reverberate in the hearts and minds of everyone who heard them. Here are those words transcribed for you below in memoriam of the 32 humans that perished.
The Warrior Poet Nikki Giovanni’s Chant-Poem:
We Are Virginia Tech
We are sad today
and we will be sad for quite a while
€¦ we are Not moving on
We are embracing our mourning
We are Virginia TechWe are strong enough
to stand tall tearlessly
We are brave enough
to bend to cry
And sad enough
to know we must laugh again
We are Virginia TechWe do not understand this tragedy
We know we did nothing to deserve it
But neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS
Neither do the invisible children walking the night away
to avoid being captured by a rogue army
Neither does the baby elephant
watching his community be devastated for ivory
Neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water
Neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night
in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands
being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized
NO one deserves a tragedy
We €¦ are Virginia TechThe Hokie Nation embraces our own
and reaches out with open hearts and hands
to those who offer their hearts and minds
We are strong
and brave
and innocent
and unafraid
We are better than we think, and
not quite what we want to be
We are alive
to the imagination and the possibilitiesWe will continue to invent the future
through our blood and tears
Through all this sadness,
We are The Hokies!We will €¦prevail!
We will prevail
We will prevail
We ARE€¦ Virginia Tech.
Did anyone notice that there was no mention of the VT anniversary today in the Washington Post? With as many Hokies as we have in the DC Metro area, this is ridiculous.
You know, growing up in Virginia, and watching this tragedy unfold while away at school in Indiana, it is still surreal to me a couple years later. I watched as cameras showed buildings i had passed thru and walkways that I had strolled while visiting the school, visiting friends that attended, even coming down for games. Its still surreal and should be a constant reminder to all that while life is meant to be lived to the fullest and not always taken too seriously, it is also meant to cherished.
IPFW remembers VT!
P.S. LydKid – They wrote something TWO days ago:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041402170.html
SMH…