Blacksburg Candle

A Digital Stained Glass Vigil candle commemorating the tragic loss of young lives at Virginia Tech this week. School colors are represented on the candle and flame.

Blacksburg, April 16, 2007

The world's a darker place today
A man with guns has staged a play
Where kids with hopes and lifetime dreams
Have been mown down with bullet streams.

The world's a sadder place today
With broken hearts in disarray
And mournful parents full of tears
With nothing left but painful years.

The world's a broken place today
For who won't turn to God and say,
"Why did You let this happen here?
Why is our world so full of fear?"

The world's a silent place today
And heaven knows not what to say,
For even God is hurt inside
And grieves the loss of those who died.