All night long in lamentations
she walks the murky water’s edge
it seems she’s lost her precious babies,
she desperately reaches down to dredge
the cold and black abysmal waters
of the swamp that took their lives
she wails and howls for all to hear her
a refusal to recognize
that they are gone to her forever
and forever curs-ed she will be.

As a young girl I cried tears with her
and swore she didn’t frighten me.