mailto: anniemcdowell2000@yahoo.com? subject=Barely Beyond the Dawn Missing_children - For the Children Lost <br />Are they plucked from our hands <br />From an unseen unmerciful God? <br />Does the criminal pay for his crime enough? <br />Far less, I say, than the victims pay <br />In childrne's innocence, cruelty lies. <br /> <br />I weep in my sorrow for something so wrong <br />I cry for the lost fallen angels gone <br />Taken, perhaps, to a batter place <br />With an omnipotent judge who is jury too <br />He'll judge the one who has no conscience <br /> <br />My heavy heart hears, an echo of cries <br />For those who've fallen to their demise <br />Beneath the earth, .... innocence lies. <br />Anne Sutherland McDowell <br /> <br />Copyright ©2005 Anne S. McDowell <br /> <br />http: //www.amw.com/missng children <br /> <br />Barely Beyond the Dawn <br />Still, stark waters and frightened souls <br />A silent smoldering rage sits silently in <br />A haunting, hard chill. <br /> <br />Our soldiers go proudly into, the night <br />For fallen angels and anguished survivors <br />And heroes who fell to their death again <br />So silently, so swiftly, the enemy stalks. <br />Softly yet strongly, our leaders also weep <br />He cradles our fears in a river or tears <br />Softly I cry through a wall built of rage. <br /> <br />Why, I ask why, did sacrificial victims die <br />There sings the ghost, of a long lost child <br />Death has no breath, the last one lost, to <br />powers unknown. <br /> <br />Anne Sutherland McDowell <br /> <br />Copyright ©2005 Anne S. McDowell<br /><br />Anne McDowell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-the-children-lost/
