Child Never Born Poem by Britney Hogue

Oh mighty God
How you created me
Your wonderful hands
They molded me
And inside this temple
You have placed my soul

You found me a mother
And in her sustaining womb
You tucked me in so warm
Nine months I stayed
Protected in glorious flesh
Until my precious birth

But what some do is blasphemy
Not to mention cruel and murderous
To take in vain your perfectness
And purposely destroy a life
Your wonderful and glorious creation
Killed off like some kind of disease

It only makes me wonder
What things you planned
For the innocent little life
That was ripped away
From his mother’s womb
And now cradled in your arms

Was it men to save a life
Or maybe even several.
Did its plans hold even more?
No one will ever know my God
The wonders the child would bring
Only you and the child never born

Psalm 139: 13-18
Jeremiah 1: 5
Exodus 20: 13