WHAT ABOUT THE WOUNDED?
What about the wounded?
What about the lost?
What about the ones who failed
To understand the cost?
What about the broken-hearted
Puzzled and betrayed
The ones who hoped and hoped and hoped
And prayed and prayed and prayed?
What about the endless nights
And fears that never cease
The hundred failed Gethsemanes
The pointless search for peace?
What about the ones who hide
Because they are afraid
Of those who will not tolerate
The way that they are made?
What about the weary ones
Who find the going tough
The desolate Elijahs
Who have simply had enough?
What about the disappointed
Darkened by distress
The ones who hoped for so much more
And live with so much less?
What about the wounded
Bleeding on the street
Staring eyes, children’s cries
The horror and the heat?
What about the wounded, Lord?