Silent child, wholly defiled

G. Bachlund

Silent child, wholly defiled,

Just a life so reviled.

Politicians support this dread act,

From one to millions, numerical fact.

Sleep, not come to birth.

Silent rite, never contrite,

Clinic rooms expedite

Medical treatment to excise a child,

Doctor and mother to death reconciled.

Sleep in hideous peace.

Sleep in hideous peace

Silently, surgery,

D and C, recovery

For the mother by death beguiled,

Not for her infant, not ever a child.

Sleep in permanent peace.