4/20/99
by Jonathan Kraft

The Day of the Columbine shootings

Rainmaker,
come tonight.
Bring your rain.
To cool us down
To let us think
To let us be.

Something horrible happened today.
So please, bring your rain.

Yet also,
bring your thunder
to let us RAGE
Bring your lightning
and let it strike,
to let us RAGE.

They died today.
*All 25 of them.*
They died today
and for NOTHING!

Bring your thunder and your lightning
and let the skies be filled
with rapturous noise
and blinding light
and let us see our RAGE
reflected in your skies.
Please Rainmaker,
come tonight.

Make peace in our hearts
and help us to make sense
out of something
that makes no sense.

Don’t wash away the blood
Let us remember…
But please Rainmaker,
come tonight,
cool us down.

(And the rainmaker came. It rained so much in the days following the shooting that people attributed it to God and his angels crying; being so distraught by the course of events that happened that day at Columbine.)

*Initial reports the night of the shooting said that as many as 25 had been killed inside the school.