A TRUE STORY
The pastor had a speaking engagement
On the other side of the city.
To get to the church he and his wife must drive
Through what is callously called "Skid Row".
As they rounded the first corner of this area
They saw the shocking sight of a young woman
Sitting on the curb with bare feet in the gutter
One shoulder of her ragged dress was torn.
Torn and draped over one shoulder.
Her head with it's dirty disheveled matted hair
Was buried in arms clasped around bare knees
A pathetic pitiful heartbreaking spectacle.
The pastor's wife spoke softly,
"There was somebody's baby".
H.W. McClelland
