Poem: Abandoned

 

Abandoned

 

who will save

this vast orphanage,

a forest of lost souls

reaching out with leaf-like hands?

 

who left them to shamble 

before callous lawyers who bark?

who abandoned them

to soil and shadow?

 

who

would do this?

clothe them in tatters

while they crane on limbs starved

for a sunny drop to eat?

 

beadles scuttle by,

possessive in their gaze.

who left these lost, fragile children

vulnerable to such insects?

 

where is God?

what price innocence?

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8/2/24... don't like this poem ...

11/29/23.... lots of edits...