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"Red snow" — Benito Juarez

Sometimes it snows single flakes
One by one
Fragile and delicate
Peaceful and calm
Other times the snow
Creates blizzards,
The perfect storm
Powerful and reckless
A dizzying unknown
This violent storm
Unexpected, unannounced
Changed fates
Changed lives
Two children died
Two deaths pronounced
The snow
what once was peaceful,
pure, and calm
Is a dreaded reminder
of what went on
And the snowflakes
(So clean and white)
that fell Like frozen tears
are forever Stained with the blood
of those children found near and dear

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