The Voices That Echo Their Stories
(A Poem of Compassion)
The Voices That Echo Their Stories
We can’t let
The voices be
Silenced
With the passing
Of time
The slipping away
Of those who
Survived.
Their stories
Live on
With the stories
They told
The memories
Shared
Written in
Ash
Blood
Sweat and Tears.
The stories they
Shared
The memories
They survived
Show us hatred
Does not
Have the power
As long as
Lessons are learned
And the pages
Written in hate
Are not
What stays
With us
But how
A broken
Humanity can
Survive
When the
Gift of love
Shines through.
We learn too
The incredible power
Of forgiveness
Is brought to light
As those who
Walked out
Of Hell
Transform
Lives with
Two simple words
“I forgive.”
We can’t let
The voices
Be silenced
As souls
Are carried away
To glory.
We must
Be the voices
That echo
Their stories.
© Michelle R Kidwell
Wed.Jan.27.2021
About the Creator
Michelle Renee Kidwell
Abled does not mean enabled. Disabled does not mean less abled.” ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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