Another Child, Another Mother – An Etheree

[Lisa Arnold]

Another Child, Another Mother – An Etheree


Dark
pathway
leads nowhere
dirty-slick streets
wet with August rain
gunshot in near distance
another child lies dying
cut down by the hand of a friend
ambulance rushes, but it’s too late
another mother cries for her dead son


©2012 Lisa Arnold


***this poem was also published in my book Echoes of My Soul

[Brigid Briton]

Hi Lisa,

Very sad and haunting. Reminds me very much of Deb's "Heard on the Wind" (poetry-here-and-now.proboards.com/thread/1823/heard-on-wind), which she also wrote a couple of years ago. The tragedy is that this sort of thing happens every single day, somewhere in the U.S.

A very moving work.

Brigid

[Lisa Arnold]

thanks Brigid!

yes, I read and commented on Deb's wonderful and poignant poem several days ago...

you are so right, this type of tragedy happens somewhere just about everyday across the country and it tears at my heart

in my work, I visit this topic often...