Jamaica Gleaner

The Church is weeping

- – Erica Brown Marriott

The Church is weeping for her children

Boys, now changed to twisted men

Unable to accept themselves

Because of what others did to them.

The Church is weeping for her children

Girls, turned into confused women

Unable to even love themselves

Because of what others did to them.

The message of hope that Mother Church doth bear

Is mixed with bitterness and fear

Fear for the trusting ones in cloistered hands,

Who through subterfuge,

Are annihilate­d by those very hands.

The message of love that Mother

Church doth preach

Oft transforms itself into a carnal beast

Which bites and growls in spirited delight

As it wriggles its immoral self into unsuspecti­ng lives.

The Church is weeping without restraint

Bemoaning the freewill

Through which her people have dodged kindness

To endorse the ills.

But, their tears will flow tomorrow

As they stand before themselves

Harnessed by a stoic conscience And forced to reap the consequenc­e!

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