Albina Kumirova Poet Rhyme

Victims of Thalidomite

It’s not a dreaded story, created by Grimms*,
but shouldn’t it horror in us and reflection ignite?
Ten thousand children born with malformed limbs
and brain defects, which were caused by thalidomite.

Of comfort and joy to be normal they didn’t know,
the victims of their mothers, who trusted science,
these children, deformed, handicapped, they had to grow,
the victims of mothers, who had on Pharma reliance.

With their arms and legs strikingly far too short,
to have them full length, they were to dream and to yearn.
Some parents sued drug companies then in court,
but with regards to limbs, who can them return?

But who was there in charge to predict outcomes?
These innocent babies knew never right from wrong...
A sedative to combat nausea of pregnant mums
condemned them to live with consequences all life long.

Condemned to attract attention by looks so strange,
with their mothers condemned to the feelings of guilt.
And only Christ one day can their bodies change,
and make them perfect one day, with His Spirit inbuilt.

Before He comes to announce His Kingdom, we
still tied to wrong preconceptions, like blind live,
still tasting bitterness of the forbidden tree,
forgetting the whole trust to the Lord to give.

And, trusting scientists more than the help divine,
in ignorance or rebellion paying price,
with demons we can accidentally then align,
when throwing into unknown our lives’ dice.

Experiments still continue, but people applaud
whatever presented to them as achievements great.
How many still trust the medicine more than God?
They put on one scale trust, on the other – fate.

28-29.12.2023

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Benjamin Bartley August 27, 2024 at 2:35 PM Interesting read. I hope you don't believe that thalidomide is the root cause of all mutations? Not sure who you are referring to as "they". Oh, you mean me, and most people. I had a friend who died because he refused the medicine that would have extended his life. I guess, he'd rather meet God than live. It's the way of this world. Everyone is going to meet the Maker one day. No? Fate.

Joseph P. DiMino March 3, 2023 at 4:28 AM Well said! They did it again, with the Covid Vaccine. Pharma and politicians to profit, royally at the expense of innocence. How many here, on the internet, misled co-conspirators who shamed the intelligent doubtful, for not wanting to take the poison jab?! Masks hide identities and guilt. A mirror cannot reflect what it is kept from seeing. Albina Kumirova March 3, 2023 at 10:48 AM Indeed! The Biblical message talking about ancient Israelites in 1 Corinthians 10 made me alert: "We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes." And then it refers to the last days, in which we are living: "These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come." Look at the WHO logo - snakes! Dr. Ardis tells that there is venum in the vaccines (symptoms are very similar to the snake bite).