“Daddy, I just want my bike.” she cried,
\nas the tyrants laughed.<\/p>\n
“Why can’t I have my bike?”<\/p>\n
Darling child… beautiful child…
\nHow it breaks my heart to know.<\/p>\n
Evil people exist because they
\nlost their hearts.<\/p>\n
Somehow, that very normal
\npart of us all fell away from them.<\/p>\n
They kept your bike, and your clothes,
\nand all your property from you<\/p>\n
because that piece of them that should
\ncare about you is gone.<\/p>\n
But, like dropping an empty bottle
\ninto the ditch, their emptiness was filled<\/p>\n
with ugly, dirty, filthy junk, and
\nnothing we do to them can clean them up.<\/p>\n
They have to clean themselves up.<\/p>\n
They have to choose to love again.<\/p>\n
They have to cry simply because you cried.<\/p>\n
I cry because you cried.<\/p>\n
Everyone cried because you cried.<\/p>\n
Maybe if we cry because they can’t cry,
\nit will send some love soap for their souls.<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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