National Tears

Sixty-plus million will never soar,
Killed in the current civil war.
Americans killing Americans
Like never before,
As abortion cuts to the core.

Tiny coffins in a row,
From Annapolis to Sacramento.
From east to west,
We may have killed America’s best.

God rides the wings of prayer,
A tear in His eye, He does care.
Indifference is the evil we see,
We can never, ever let it be.

Filled with holy discontent,
Stand for life, never relent.
Far from the end of the story,
God will triumph in glory.

By Terry McDermott

(Terry McDermott lives in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) †

The Criterion