Sweet Bearer of Burden’s Plate

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

Sweet Bearer of Burden’s Plate

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Sweet and innocent

Ebony woman,

Proud bearer of burden's plate,

How regally

You bare your burdensome load,
The essence of dignity

With classless mate.

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Nine months

plus ten and six you bore

Your sentence from shiftless mate;

Now

All alone, you’re left to grieve,

Your gift of love,

and your child’s cruel fate.

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Tears of sorrow in the rain,

All alone

You absorb your pain;

Four years short of twenty-one,

Of God's sweet gift

You now have none.

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But
One last task yet left to do

For your gift of love

Before you're through;
Look to God,

through lonely tears,
and thank him lovingly,

for

sixteen years.

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Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.