Dedicated Poem to Tiny Man

To Zach

Seems like He is such a cruel God
When He takes the young child
Seems it’s pointless and hard hearted
If they're here just a while

Seems love just gets so much stronger
With aching emptiness
I say love survives forever
In us for those we miss

It is the life lived without love
That never lives at all
It is the old man so alone
Who stays down when he falls

It is he who will not reach out
Whom God cannot take in
But it’s the child who lives with God
Who’s always innocent

When your grief is all around you
And despair is your song
And you think God’s love is only
For persons righteous all along

Just remember in his Sweet Word
The promise so sacred
Blessed shall be the pure in heart
For they shall behold God