My Child

Tonight will be ok my child
released from that cage,
Don't let them take your little heart away
with all the anger they display.
Tonight will be ok my child.
Tommorow another day.

Cowardice

What does a man think when he watches another

Put hands around a woman’s fragile neck

And squeeze, until she passes

To unconsciousness?



What does he fear when he sees a knife

Drawn and held against a woman’s dying face,

Her body slouched

Trapped

Beneath the weight?



What goes through his mind as he runs away

To take his brother

To a safer place?


As fear and cowardice fill his veins

Does he sit alone

And contemplate?



What fills his heart when the strength

Of a victim

Goes beyond his own?


Does he hurt,

His guidance rejected

As she walks alone?