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Songbird
Member Elite

since 1999-12-15

Posts 2184
Missouri

0 posted 2001-09-16 08:51 PM

I taught Sunday School today
But it was not my ordinary
Sunday school class
The children's face's
All had a different cast

Gone were the smiles
I'm used to seeing

A worried look
Was in their eyes
And the words they said
Made tears want to come
To my eyes

A little boy of four
Talked of getting a gun
To protect his house

Those bad men
Are not far away
I heard him say
I saw what they done
On TV the other day

Then I heard him say
It happened over in
________ he said
As he named
A nearby town

It was then I realized
That the sweet little innocent
Little boy
Didn't realize New York
Was nearly 1200 miles away

So, I tried to calm his
Undeserved fears
By explaining to him
Just how far away
New York was to him today

Dear God, A little child
Taught me today
Just how much the earth shrank
In a single day

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2001-09-16 08:55 PM

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2001-09-16 09:41 PM

I am so sorry that the children see and hear this. They need their innocence and you are right. The world has shrunk. Joyce

kaile

Member Ascendant

since 2000-02-06

Posts 5146
singapore

3 posted 2001-09-17 12:46 PM

gosh, how do we as adults explain this incident in "little children wording" indeed?

HUGS

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

4 posted 2001-09-17 05:23 AM

Yes, the children are innocent. My granddaughter is sooo unaware- she trust us. How dare they take away this innocence?
Thanks for the hearfelt poem.

Melton

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

5 posted 2001-09-17 06:41 PM

Yes, how dare they...for that alone they would be deserving of the wrath of our justice. Very well expressed, Songbird.

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

6 posted 2001-09-18 06:48 PM

Well done! Whatever we are feeling now, is bound to spill over into the lives of our children. It is hard to know how to comfort them. We can't protecct them totally from the media in it's many forms and I can see a great anxiety in many of the children I know.
It fuels my anger.

Betty Lou Hebert

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