What great purpose did God have in mind
For each child that's been slain in the womb?
How many geniuses has the world been deprived of
In some murderous abortion room?
How many physicians, lawyers, musicians?
How many artists and teachers?
How many judges, nurses and scientists?
How many pastors and preachers?
Who knows the great works that they might have done
Had each one been allowed to live?
What right has man to deprive them of that life
That is God's alone to give?
Each mother's womb is a sacred vessel
In which a new life begins,
The life of a separate, unique individual,
One like no other has been.
What great purpose did God have in mind
For each one of those babies man killed?
Who knows the potential that's been wasted and gone?
'Tis a void that will never be filled.
a. franklin staples
July 18, 1993
Copyright © 1993 by A. Franklin Staples
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