Today marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that created a constitutional, nationwide right to abortion. Patricia Franklin, one of our semi-regular contributors shares her feelings as thousands attend The March for Life in Washington, D.C. – Onisha
A Few Thoughts
Patricia Franklin
I sit in the stillness of the morn
Contemplating in the silence of nature surrounding me,
With a pain in my heart that is inconsolable.
The silence and stillness surround me
And there is no solace for the little souls of the unborn
Who have never seen the light of a day like this.
The silence of their screams is deafening
In my ears and in my heart. Their sighs echo
In the breeze soaring through the pines.
How can this selfish nation live with its guilt?
How can it sleep, or survive
Knowing what it has done and careing not?
How will our Creator deal with us,
This greedy, ungrateful, unseeing, uncaring and insensitive nation
As it slowly drowns and dies from its own gluttonous appetites,
Not knowing or caring about the silent cries
And senseless slaughter of its children?
I sit in the stillness and I mourn
And contemplate the suicide of a nation,
Which cannot,and will not survive without its children.
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