Encounter

I saw her sitting in the park alone Crying, crying there She seemed unfed with nothing for her own But the salty tear My spirit grieved my heart was touched to see Her just crying there I sat in silence and longed for words to free Her from her despair She looked at me with suspicious eyes and sighed With sorrow and care As though something sacred in her soul died Which caused her each tear I hate to see a woman cries, I hurt With every sad tear I am angry for each inhuman hurt Moved by every fear And so resolved I chance assured her, please Can I dry your tear Then in sudden torrents, longing for ease Her story came clear A child violated make mothers scorned And the seas in tear Cannot wash the slithering hand, the horned Thrust she has to bear Daily in her womb it grows, daily she flees Followed by each tear She agonized with God on bended knees And just silence there She will not destroy the child for two wrongs Will not dry a tear Nor undo the sorrow souring her songs Till death cease her care So thinking fast I said the cross altered Once another tear A woman bruised and battered lived unfaltered Its bright crown to where New dreams to make from old dreams shattered there Love shows through each tear The rainbow in coming child, I'll be there No more crying here