Born Into Chaos

I was born into chaos, which reigned long,
A world into which no one should live;
I knew not what that day would give-
Yet, through it I have remained strong!

A dastardly fiend and his accomplice
Under guise of nurture, most cowardly still-
Terrorizing nestlings, testing their very will,
Did perpetrate a most horrific injustice!

There is much, as consequence, once this had begun!
Forgiveness, for some, would come in different forms:
Your charge was to provide shelter from their 'storms'!
Then, how could you allow what was repeatedly done?

Their childhood was supplanted by your salacious sin-
Innocence was lost for them, ne'er to be their's again!

Maurice Harris,22 September 2009

poem by Maurice Harris
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