Jagged metal arms enfold
Caress that lifeless body cold.
And shattered glass like diamonds spread
A halo round its bloodied head.
A senseless death at seventeen
A candle dimmed, a final scream.
An instant turned such youthful joy
To dead, discarded, broken toy.
Will never know tomorrow's dawn,
For him no children ever born
To share his stories still untold
To share his peace of growing old.
Now gone forever, never wake
Forever young, from that mistake.
As parents shrine his darkened room
And jagged metal now his womb.
James James
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/heavy-metal/
