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Monday, May 28, 2018

ANOTHER EMPTY CRADLE




by Judy Alciatore


ANOTHER EMPTY CRADLE
ANOTHER EMPTY CRIB
IS THIS WHAT GOD INTENDED
MAKING EVE FROM ADAM'S RIB

ANOTHER INFANT SLAUGHTERED
ON THE ALTAR OF ABUSE
PRAISING THEIR GOD, MOLOCH
FOR THEIR LEGAL RIGHT TO CHOOSE

ANOTHER LIFE IS VANQUISHED
AND DO WE STILL KEEP SCORE
HOW MANY, LORD, HOW MANY
MORE AND MORE AND MORE

ANOTHER EMPTY CRADLE
ANOTHER EMPTY BED
NO CURLY-HAIRED INFANT
TO REST HIS LITTLE HEAD

FOR HE LIES NOW IN PIECES
THROWN DOWN UPON THE FLOOR
AND WE, WITH MUTED VOICE, NOW CRY
OH, LORD, OUR SOULS RESTORE

THANK YOU, LORD


Note from JudyAlciatore: Apparently, there is some confusion about the 3rd line of this poem....It is a rhetorical question, meant to make people think...And, of course, its meaning is that God did NOT intend for babies to be slaughtered...Surely the rest of the poem makes that clear.




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