Click2History - Voices From Virginia Tech - Chapter 8

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>VOICES FROM VIRGINIA TECH</p> </font> </div> <center> <table width="595" bordercolor="#800000" bordercolordark="#CC5500" bordercolorlight="#800000" border="13"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="587">   <div align="justify"> <p>  <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"><a href="http://www.vt.edu/remember/biographies/michael_steven_pohle_jr.html" target="_blank"><b>Michael Steven</b></a> <a href="http://www.vt-memorial.org/profiles/Pohle.html" target="_blank"><b>Poyle, Jr.</b></a><br> <font size="2">By Jennifer Aguilar<br><br><br> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="left">One week, six days, five hours, two minutes.<br> He couldn’t even wait. I was almost there.<br> I was so close to graduation.<br> The hard hours of lacrosse practice, gone.<br> The species I was about to discover,<br> Disintegrated, gone.<br> Why me? Why was I here?<br> My mother told me to take a break.<br> “Stay home today,” she said.<br> Bad enough I had to give up lacrosse.<br> My own life being taken away<br> Is not my main concern,<br> But the ones I left behind.<br> My girlfriend and I, so in love,<br> Ready for our happy future.<br> My parents, about to see their son<br> Finally reach his peak.<br> Twenty-three years they protected me.<br> But here, in this room,<br> This is where they couldn’t be.<br> I’m still here, waiting, wishing, wondering.<br> Looking for an answer.<br> Every day I see my old friends<br> Enter through that same doorway.<br> Do they remember this tragedy?<br> Or even know it occurred?<br> To this day, I sit here, in this empty classroom,<br> Full of souls.<br> I will let them know.<br> Left here to protect the others,<br> I will warn them.<br><br> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </div> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><a href="../virginia_tech/virginia_tech_ch7.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="virginia_tech_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="../virginia_tech/virginia_tech_ch9.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>