Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. All art is subjective. Her enthusiasm, delivery, and feeling transcended the words. The students had just experienced a major trauma 24 hours before. They needed to leave that auditorium believing in the future and not dwell on the past. Stop being a victim and wallowing in self-pity. Accept the past and go on. That was the message and the audience obviously understood it.
kabar....it was barely 24 hours since their friends, teachers, family were MURDERED...
At that point there is no wallowing and self-pity..there is grief, fear, doubt and denial.
Her speech and that Hokie cheer seemed to almost attempt to pretend the deaths never happened.
Sure..maybe her poem will help some...but “believing in the future and not dwell in the past”...that is unfair, these people deserve the time to take this in...and grieve.
My goodness...this microwave society....massacre one day...cheering for the future the next???
That isn’t right...