Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Hero

Liviu Libescu is his name.
During his 76 years
He did not have fortune or fame,
But knew times of terrors and tears.
He survived a Nazi slave camp,
And escaped a Communist slay.
Lady Liberty's lighted lamp
Brought him to the U.S. of A.
To lecture at Virginia Tech,
Where he was in a filled classroom,
Invaded by a human wreck,
Intent in inflicting mass doom.

He died blocking the killer's crime,
To give his students saving time.