Prayers For Terri Schiavo

Prayers For Terri Schiavo

We know the hand of evil
has touched you this very day
No sacredness for the beauty of life
when evil imposes its way

You're not dependent on life support
yet die they want that you'll do
Your parents Love you dearly
but no more can they do for you

Assigned now to the death penalty
though you're not terminally ill
Who has sinister reasons
for wanting that you be still?

Who deprived you of medical care
Who stopped you from going outside
Who did all these things to you
And who has something to hide?

The courts have made a decision
that you must surely die
They've removed food and hydration
and have bid you a chilling goodbye

Society abandons you too
in this your final hours
This evil act is murder no doubt!
in its shadow most everyone cowers

It'll take days or weeks to die
starvation's a painful death
Finality will be torturously slow
'till you take your final breath

Farewell dear Terri Schiavo
in our hearts you'll remain alive
Your awesome fight, your will to live
despite those who dared to contrive.

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Note:

Terri Schiavo is dying.
Removal of all nutrition and hydration invites a slow, painful death.
She is not comatose or terminally ill yet a decision by the USA courts
has ensured death by starvation. How do you define murder?

In this country even animals are not forced to suffer this way.
In fact if someone knowingly starves an animal they face jail time.
How is it possible that a so called "civilised" society, wilfully ends the life of a human being this way?

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Author: Andrina Lejon
Poem Title: Prayers For Terri Schiavo
Prayers For Terry Schiavo © from One Love book series

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