The Death Of A Young Girl Poem by Catherine L Peacock

Why does Death take one so young

Why does Death so suddenly choose

The hopeful girl to lose?


Does Death not see the wickedly rotten?

A misguided fool claims his title

All his praise misbegotten!

Why does death not darken his doorstep?

Suck the life from his cavity!

Release his grip on this earth

Send him flying, no more gravity!


How does Death reconcile leaving evil in place

And taking the one with so much grace?

Violence rages across his face

Within seconds a deadly shadow


Death creates a massacre to discover

Leaving us speechless, searching

Crying, pleading, falling, lurching

While he still laughs and dreams

All we have left are silent screams