Haley Akin - Joplin

A sliver has been cut,
From my weak and broken heart.
Children lost by winds,
And families tossed into the dark.
Now a beating open wound
The cut so deep, and sharp, and violent
Lives so young, so precious, no more future...
gone from present.

Haley Akin

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