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Where Are You?

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There are times when I scream at the sky

Where are you!?

When I witness the mothers who have lost their children

When I see what the bombs have done to their homes,

Their hospitals, their schools and playgrounds

Their tents on fire

What kind of people are doing this?

What kind of god is letting this happen?

Why is no one stopping this?

In the silence I hear the answer:

“Where are you? What are you doing to stop this?

You have a voice, you have hands and feet

You are alive, you can do something.”

Why do we blame God

When it is people who choose

to love or harm

to nurture life or destroy it?

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Mother Guilt

Let me go here once in a while

Not often or too long

Only we mothers know

What we could have been

Had we been whole

What we missed

When we weren’t there

Spoke too soon

Or not enough

Over protected

Or neglected

Too harsh

Too lax

Too busy

Too tired

We know

So let us alone

To grieve for a while

I promise

I won’t stay too long

Or I might drown

I won’t medicate it

Numb it or

Meditate it away

Instead it’s good

To face it

Then super grace it

With God’s love

Move on

There are more

Children, teens or

Young adults

To love and care for

If not my own

Then another mother’s

We need each other

We mothers

We don’t have enough

Of all we need

For this job

© 2013 Julie Clark

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