Yesterday morning, just after eight,
An irate young man walked through a school gate.
Called a teacher out of her classroom,
Little did she know she was meeting her doom.

He confronted her about an incident
Where he had sexually assaulted her student.
The safety of the child was her only concern,
She never knew things would take a bad turn.

To inform the police was her only plan,
But the man took matters into his own hand.
She didn’t like the situation at first glance,
But this poor teacher never got a chance.

He stabbed her with a fatal blow to the chest,
All she had time to do was clutch her breast.
“Why did you stab me?” was her final say,
Before this martyr’s life was taken away.

Fellow teachers and children reacted in horror,
They never experienced this kind of terror.
For this teacher of more than twenty five years,
The entire nation has shed many tears.

Everyone knew her to be dynamic and assertive,
Some may say she was even aggressive.
But this teacher went in pursuit of what she believed,
And this is all the thanks that she has received.

She has left behind two daughters to mourn,
And two grandchildren whose lives are now torn.
Her death is a tremendous loss to us all,
Mrs. Evelyn James, to us, you will always stand tall..


20th Feb, 2003.