A child so young and innocent Not knowing the answers to the pain she feels Deep with in her heart Wanting to know the answers That lay deep in the shadows of her mind Wanting to no why life has such hunting realities
She reachers to her mother laying motionless On the dry bloodied ground Wanting her hand to reach out To give her a touch of reassurance Wanting to hear her mothers gentle words - to say All is going to be well But nothing Just a deathly silence The little girl, with a look of despair Watched over her mother just laying there Then reaching out her tinny hand Takes her mothers cold hand and holds it tight Mummy... please tell me what is right The tears of innocents dropping onto her tight grasp Then she said" please mummy Wake up, I need to tell you I love you Mummy please wake up
Then a soldier takes her tinny hand And kneels down to her And with his heart full of sadness Said in a breaking voice Your mummy is sleeping now In a never ending sleep She is at peace in a place of beauty and splendour Come on little one we have to go The little girl with tears in her eyes Looks to the soldier with a sad smile Then looks to her mother Then with a broken voice, said, "good-bye" You have gone the where the flowers grow I know now that you will never be alone Then she turned away And hand in hand she left with this stranger That she will never know Knowing in her heart the harsh reality of this moment
A innocent child has paid for what life has dealt to her On this day in time on the bloody battle fields of war This day will forever be a saddened memory That she will carry in her broken soul For all the tomorrows to come
The shorter version of this poem has been published in “Remember Them In Silence” By Poetry Now First published in Great Britain 2006 Through Forward Press This is the original poem
