Children of Tears

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Tears for the lonely child,
crying all her years;
armies of infants,
playing with fears;
parents with hearts of stone;
love on the telephone;
kisses dialed for Rebecca.
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Children from empty homes,
crying all the night;
guardians and nursery schools,
can’t make it right;
playpens in court,
some kind of sport;
law letters daily used as toys.
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Cries from lonely children
fill our ears;
tears from broken children
fill our eyes;
all the broken children,
all the lonely children,
filled with tears.
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(and she says)
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Please God, let it be,
when You and I are three;
now they’ve just begun,
to make none of me.
Build your home again,
rhyme your poem again,
let me be again.
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Cries from broken children,
fill our ears.
Tears from lonely children
fill our eyes.
All the broken children,
all the lonely children,
filled with tears.
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