DM Babbit Poet Free verse

Who Weeps

Who weeps
   for the soldier in battle
   brave yet afraid of the dreams left behind
   when peace was gained and lost again?
Who weeps 
   for the children with faces on the carton
   runaways missing love, hope and dreams
   promised the day they were born?
Who weeps 
   for the mother once loved
   now lost, alone in despair
   left with the child needing care?
Who weeps
   for the old and alone
   dreaming of family long grown
   and no place left to go?
Who weeps
   for the promises made and unkept
   by the government's poor attempts
   at speaking and representing the public?
Who weeps
   for the poor, the depressed, the desperate
   losing all hope of the American dream
   slipped away with no way to start again?
We weep,
   you and I
   questioning how easily freedom is lost
   paying again and again, the price and every cost.

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Mick Talbot March 22, 2018 at 8:50 PM Who weeps, I think we across the pond weep for you all... I find hard to understand why he's allowed the freedom to do what he wants? A super, poignant write DM... Mick