before i was 5

The Rev. Erice Fairbrother

 

For the Foley, Stoloff, Haines and now the Gourdel family

Before I was 5

I had heard of

Herod and

beheading

 

A distant

A horror

But holy

story

 

before breakfast

today

I heard

Of another

 

not distant

not a story

but an unholy

horror

 

and a world

of grief unimaginable

without

end

 

(c) ecfairbrother 2014