When the government policies take a toll on the family, it's time to protest.

We don't need clanging symbols that deafen the ears 

It's a agony of a child being restraint for the removal 

and stick of her blood to flow not in the veins 

but in a plastic tube that causes stress. 

Good intentions flow from the state 

but the path is leaving behind droplets that stain 

creating tears more than the answer they are searching. 

Poking at the tiny arms that can barely hold a hug

a hand that is just learning to sign milk, bye, thank you 

is marked with a bruise four times in two arms. 

Something is wrong when the perfume of spilled blood 

marks their day of hours at the lab. 

The little ones are not meant to bleed, but too 

expel the spirit of the innocent!   @ Sharon E Hannan