How Many Poem by Heather Kemper

What have we done
to each other out there today
I sit here and wonder
as I listen to the rain.
Why is God crying
what have we done to hurt his heart?
Who did we turn our back on
when it was cold, lonely and dark?
How many children
blew themselves up outside a school?
How many people have we killed
because they were different, unacceptable not cool?
How many wars have been declared
on the weaker, poorer or by us dreamed less?
How many children have been beaten
instead of loved and given rest?
How many old have been left alone
to be forgotten unloved and unkempt?
How many babies have been thrown away
as if they had no value
just something to discard to die where they are left
How many hatreds
will we continue to pass to those that follow/
All this the how many
is what has caused him
to look down on us with such sorrow,

December 28,2004