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The Promise


How cheap the human life
that some would call, 'not human'.
Therein lies the gruesome task
to count up all our dead.
 
How great their evil lie
when life's deemed not 'worth' living.
What's the end for Man
when he's found 'unworthy' lives?
 
Make the death of promise
sliced before it ever bloomed.
What's their crippled wisdom
with no flower from the bud?
 
When's a selfish terror
spread like venom on the Earth?
When innocents are slaughtered
lest they grow to love Our Lord.


 

[Mark Johnson, copyright 1997]