Unmourned

 Unmourned

A thousand voices silenced

Before they made a sound

The world moves on

Where are the children

Lost in a self complacent

Churning whirlwind of lies

A mother goes in

Her child remains

No one mourns 

Our children are abandoned

A thousand lives gone

How long has it been?

A day? An hour?

Each moment they slip away

Never to be remembered

Who will notice their absence?

A thousand first breaths

Never taken

First cries

Never heard

First steps

Untaken

First laugh

Unknown

Who will notice the unheard cries?

Sent to an early death

Unmourned

Unremembered

Undesired

What did they do?

Nothing

What do we care?

Nothing

Will they remain unmourned forever?

Mourn the lost children

Protect the unseen ones

How did they lose their value?

In their size

In their age

In their location

In their hiddenness

In their innocence

In their perfection?

Who has called for their end?

Who cries out for their death?

Why so early

Why so young

Why so horrible

So torturous and end?

Will any cry out against this?

Cry out!

The innocent are carried to their deaths

Cry out lest they all be silenced

Cry out for the voiceless

Cry out for the hidden

Cry out for the guileless

Cry out for the innocent

Cry out for the tortured ones

Who's mothers knew them not

Who's father's abandoned them

Who's life was taken for pay

Killed by a stranger in a cold white room

Undesired

Unknown

Unmourned