I don’t claim to be musical, but I do find myself often able to write poems, and song lyrics. The following song was written in October 2024 in memory of my child lost to abortion.

In shadows of fear, my heart did cry

Choking in shadows, a choice to deny

Stolen from my womb by fear’s cruel hand

The wicked deception of choices unplanned

I pleaded and begged as you slipped away,

I bargained and cried, I prayed you could stay

They lied and they pressed, and the pill was bitter,

Yet I bore the guilt, and the pain of that day.

From the shadows and shame I found forgiveness

The choice of your passing I did confess

Though fear and cruelty took you away

With my savior, my Jesus, safely you’ll stay.

I bled and and I lost, and I threw you away

Without colors or coats, so easy to betray.

They promised that I would feel waves of relief

But I stumbled away covered in blood and in grief.

I fought to find purpose, to hide my shame

But was lost in the darkness, for I was to blame.

But Jesus, he saw me, and whispered His love,

And I clung to his grace, and his hope from above.

From the shadows and shame I found forgiveness

The choice of your passing I did confess

Though fear and cruelty took you away

With my savior, my Jesus, safely you’ll stay.

My child, my son, with courage I claimed you.

With love and with sorrow, my child I named you.

I opened the wound of your death to my Father,

And openly wept and sought Jesus at the altar

Your loss, a wound that time cannot mend

Nearly destroyed me, this heart to rend

But fear is cast out, I scarce can recall,

For the truth set me free, love above all.

From the shadows and shame I found forgiveness

The choice of your passing I did confess

Though fear and cruelty took you away

With my savior, my Jesus, safely you’ll stay.

Let my Fiat be Yes! Whenever they ask me,

To speak of loves light, a truth to unmask me

Beauty from ashes, this story’s not done,

For I’ve given my life to Gods only Son.