Poem to Newtown

To Newtown

When children die in senseless pain,

Our grief  pours forth like lonely rain,

Sadness sinks our soul

In a dark descending hole.

To a deathly silent sky,

We scream an angry, “Why?”,.

But hear no echo, nor a sound,

And weep abandoned on  the ground.

Then someone else’s tears join ours,

A quiet neighbor  brings us flowers,

Unknown hands caress our face,

Nameless arms send their embrace.

It comes creeping, it comes slow,

But in the darkness there’s a glow,

An unquenchable flicker whose flame imparts,

The collective light of human hearts.

Newtown, you’re no longer small,

You’re at the center of us all.

Your children and victims are the face,

Of the universal human race.

We all can’t join your sorrow there,,

But hear our tender cry, “We Care!”,

And know the light from across this land,

Is our loving heart in a healing hand.

From all of us, everywhere.