Orphan

Dear Troubled Child

Does no one stop to look at you?

Tear-streaked face

Mud caked cheeks

You sit on this old porch, waiting

and no one has come

You sit through the cold winter nights

Not moving

Why don’t you go home?

The one you’ve lost

Is not coming back.... again

Little Young Soul

Rest at my feet

I shall guide you

Pity has blessed you and I will take you in

My name is Death

You will cry no longer

Close your eyes and dreams of eternal peace will come

You’ll sleep in a shroud of shelter

Orphan you are no more

I will be your mother

Please don’t cry

Please don’t cry....