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A poem for the angels

I'm a father of 5 and can only hope this helps in some little way. Know that you are in the prayers of many all around the country.

Why

20 brand new angels
arrived just yesterday.
Frightened and confused
they only wished to stay

with parents now left empty,
and shattered beyond belief.
Their babies’ precious little lives
stolen by a spineless thief

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with evil in his heart,
and killing on his mind.
Dear God where are you now?
It’s getting hard to find

a reason for the carnage,
and the acts of the insane.
Can we still find eternal love
surrounded by such pain?

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Now 20 brand new angels
who only yesterday did die, 
and with them, too, the innocence.
Why, dear God, why?

No words for such an unspeakable atrocity...

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