Why? when you knew

Tell me where all the years have gone.

A year stolen, a year lost.

Another year beginning no thaw just frost.

Where is my daughter? What does she think?

How does she feel? What is the cost?

Another life destroyed, washed away -lost.

No bones broken. no marks on the skin

The occasional tear the only sign

of this your greater sin

I hope vengeance was sweeter

than it looks from here.

The price she will pay overtime will become only too clear.

Do not put the blame this way

when you discover the true cost of vengence

the damage to the innocent. it will never be okay.

GMP 2006