A Child's Death
So still in that night,
A newborn slept quietly,
In her mother’s bed.
In that dark stillness,
The infant suffocates.
She is gone.
After that
this poem for her.
For her memory leaves....
a lasting impression.
of that night, that darkness,
that nightmare of stillness,
Copyright © James Ranahan | Year Posted 2015
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