A Heart of Stone

Paula Louise Shene

 

A mother’s heart is filled with love

Heaped over with compassion’s glove

Earnestly loving her own and others

A heart that feels the hurt that sputters.

Rested and carried beneath the heartbeat

To the one scooped up off the street.

Oh… many care for their own and none more

Foundlings ignored or sold out the door

Sons and daughters sold for lack of a mother

Taken as fodder so no longer a bother

Only their own, adored and pampered

Needing them too to follow their lead

Entering destiny after destroying their seed

(USA, 10/1/2021)