Remembering the Fallen...

For every person taken from this world because of hate and intolerance.  May the memories remain to inspire courage and compassion.

Innocence, it's often been said, can be found in the eyes of the children ...

Yet, innocence, like crystal shattered
Drained with life's blood
Eclipsed by bitter darkness

 

Do they remember it, that moment of horror
When false judgment cast its sentence?
when shadows of fear like axes fell
And dreams, with innocence, died?

Or do they know Peace,  in angel's arms
And warmth of love no longer stained by hate?

Has, for them,  fear been forever banished 

And the monsters of the night left far behind?

For the fallen, I mourn and I pray
for innocence born anew
And if, in truth, innocence does lie with children
Then for the fallen I pray - 

 

Please, please let them forget
So they can be little again