Witness

Remembering is easy,
but you think the past is best forgot.
Prayers appeared unanswered,
but you think that was just your lot.

But God was listening--
to the angels He was whispering:
Her life will be a witnessing,
not a wasted birth,
to all the lives she touches
on this planet Earth.

Alesia Leach ©  01/2015
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Thajudeen Avatar
January 1, 2015 at 6:53 PM
Very creative one.N -Safa
Roper Avatar
January 1, 2015 at 5:45 PM
nice, Alesia, blessing7
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