American Torn Apart

God's Life-Giving Rain

The young mother holds the small head tightly to her breast
Crying non-stop for the past few hours she nuzzles her mother’s chest
Her tiny belly is bloated and she is weak unto death
As the young mother pleads to God to keep this child’s breath

The mother can do nothing for she hasn’t eaten in 3 days
She has no more milk to give and so to God she prays
She has never asked for anything, except for her daughter to live
But God is not in a merciful mood and life He does not give

The child looks to the heavens and slowly closes her eyes
Once more time she gasps in pain and then the child dies
The mother holds the lifeless body and then she starts to wail
People around her try to give her comfort, but to no avail 

How could He destroy a baby? grief tears the mother apart
As unbearable agony consumes her for He has ripped open her heart
He could have prevented this, providing Father so profane
What loving God could do this? All she needed was a little rain

Dustin Germain 10/21/01