The Dreamcatcher

There is a traveling Dreamcatcher With blue beads and brown feathers. Under the beads and feathers, you can read, 'Let us see each other again.' The Dreamcatcher has visited 4 schools All devastated by gun violence, And the names of each are listed on its back: Columbine High in Colorado, Red Lake High in Minnesota, Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, and Marysville Pilchuck High in Washington. Now it hangs on a wall in the lobby Of Townville Elementary in South Carolina. Its unspoken words are 'I understand.' So much attention is given to The murdered and their killers. But it is the survivors who are affected the worst. They suffer from PTSD and nightmares. They start at loud noises, like a car backfiring. They feel survivor's guilt. They fear the shooter attacking them again. One little first-grade boy wrote A card in memory of his friend who died: 'I loved him but he diyd But he is still a life in my hart.'