Headline Poem 6/4/14 -- Tossed

Today's story about 800 baby bodies, long dead, found in an Ireland home for unwed mothers, is extremely heart-breaking. 

Tossed 

Tossed aside and

Dumped. 

Like garbage 

with 

rodents and earthworms, and dirt. 

Piled too high. 

With 

dreams unfulfilled. Clerks and bankers and explorers and mothers and fathers not. 

Angels who 

will never be 

tricked 

or lied 

to 

Reside

lifeless 

together 

in decay. 

The arrogant bastards who run 

such 

a place 

may still walk this earth, 

but the world knows 

now,

and we don't 

forget 

a face.