Faith

Somewhere another child weeps, her mouth dry and thirsty ---- Her stomach throbs from the greed of the world; she'd go to the local church but her strength won't let her ---- let her brave the cold and the chill of dawn Her torn torn red dress, sags like lost love, and her shoes shell-shocked with holes, and travel from place to icy place; Where faces are long and uncaring Where there is evil and greed and sin In a rose garden she found herself, and herself alone, with the delightful flowers and a wing and a prayer; She knelt on her dirty knees to smell the clean red petals And prayed for an early warm day ---- and praying still, the sun had risen before the dawn