A sliver has been cut, <br />From my weak and broken heart. <br />Children lost by winds, <br />And families tossed into the dark. <br />Now a beating open wound <br />The cut so deep, and sharp, and violent <br />Lives so young, so precious, no more future... <br />gone from present.<br /><br />Haley Akin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/joplin-3/
