Compounding Grief
They go to sit
remembering
lost children
claimed by
the waters pull.
Some how they
gain strength
from the two girls
now known as
The Babies of Walloon.
Bridget and Mary
standing hand in hand
like children dancing
as they played on a
summers day.
brings comfort
to who grieve for
children taken by
the waters pull
like The Babies of Walloon.
Again taken from us
all to soon
the girls now separated
by the saw
of thoughtless men.
Compounding grief
of those who sort
comfort and strength
from the statueletts
that danced upon lilies.
A community grieves
struggling to comprehend
a little girl taken
from us twice
from us twice
her memorial now loss.
Debbie Chilton © Copyright 2012
Original Poem
Babies of Walloon
by Henry Lawson, (c) 1891
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