That's your interpretation. I don't agree with it. I like AppyPappy's response in post #51: "Nikki is irreverant, naughty and a trouble maker. In short, a Hokie. I think she is a lefty, civil rights wannabe. But she is Hokie through and through."
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.
They have been grieving. Life is for the living. After 9/11, we needed the same kind of encouragement and President Bush provided it. So did FDR the day after Pearl Harbor. Grieve but move forward.
My goodness...this microwave society....massacre one day...cheering for the future the next???That isn’t right...
That's your opinion. The audience obviously had a different one judging by their response. We are a resilient, tough people. The people who settled this country were not made of sugar candy. The ones fighting for our freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan are made of the same [and right] stuff.
yeah..those are my opinions.
You are are entitled to yours...but that doesn’t make mine wrong.
When your kids fell and hurt themselves..did you even give them a bandaid??
Note that her poem didn’t say they were moving on, but rather that they were taking the time to grieve. In an upbeat way she told the students that there was a time to mourn, and that time was now, and it was OK to reflect on their own loss and grief before moving on to closure.
I could have done without the 2nd verse with all the other “tragedies”, but I guess that’s why I’m not a world-renowned poet. That or my skin color.