Life Dies, Love Cries
While my heart does bleed
For new life never born
My mind does heed
The pain of a mother torn
The decision to forestall
Life's seed to full bloom
Is a powerful anguish
of hellish gloom
How alone mother must feel
To be faced with the choice
To usurp God's authority
that unborn life be divorced
Yes, there are those who make
This decision in ignorance
Whose morality is nil
With no remorse or revulsion
But I believe that spirits
Of benevolent souls
Women faced with this dilemma
In their hearts have holes...
Who could know this ultimate penitence
suffered in lonely darkness
Calling on God for forgiveness
Any sympathetic conscience that might understand...
And continue to carry day to day, night after night
The guilt and shame and personal reprimand
Thou shalt not judge
But try to empathize
Your sister's 'sin'
Is not yours to chastise
Copyright 2016 Iger Rolyat All Rights Reserved
Copyright © Iger Rolyat | Year Posted 2016
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