Scandalous
Act
How many more
lives to be lost
before sanity returns
and the killing
stops
Pushing and shoving
it all gets too
much
innocent people
dying
when football fans
rush
Once the calm returns
and quiet fills
the air
people are filled
with horror
looking at death's
cold stare.
©
Yolande Matthews
April
2001
This
poem is dedicated to the 43 people who lost their lives
in
a stampede during a soccer match on 11 April 2001
