1145HRS APRIL 19TH 2007

"You vandalised my heart

You raped my soul

You torched my conscience

You thought it was one

pathetic boy's life

you were extinguishing.

Thanks to you,

I will die

like Jesus Christ,

to inspire

generations of the

weak and defenseless people."

The last words

of Cho Seung Hui

before he went

on a killing rampage.

I don't for a single moment

think that people

spontaneously mutate

into murderous psychopaths.

The world we live in,

gradually transform them.

This world where we divide

the haves and the have nots,

the rich and the poor,

the winners and the losers.

Clearly,

young Cho was crying

for help

for a long time.

His soul was tortured

his being was tormented

his pain excruciating.

Buried amongst us,

there are many other Chos.

Inside each of us,

is a Cho screaming

for help.

Do we care?

Until a tragedy

occurs?