Inviolable by Naomi Kirk-Lawlor

A library is a sacred place  

In an America made of strip malls,  
ethnocentricity,  
television infomercials, 
cigarettes,
and  guns  

It is amazing 
that anyone who cares to 
can have 
free, uncensored access 
to the knowledge, 
the stories, and 
the wisdom of the world.  

Just for being alive.  

But while libraries to most of us resemble 
the view from the top 
of the Empire State Building 
on a cloudless day,   

to some they seem more like 
small hidden windows that haven't  
seen windex in decades.  

Perhaps if those boys had spent more time 
in the very place 
they chose to end 
themselves, 
they might have found 
someone else to lead them.  

Libraries are like little drops 
of magic 
scattered across our country.

They should be inviolable.