The Waiting Child Waits

This might be hard to read and look at but, it is the reality.

While we were eating…

… they were hungry
While we were playing…
… they were restrained

While we were tucking our kids into bed…
… they were alone
While we turned up the heat…
… they laid in the icy cold

While we wrapped our children in blanket sleepers…
… they laid in their own excrement
While we sang songs and listened to music…
… they listened to the screams and cries of those around them

While we rocked our babies…
… they silently rocked themselves

While we hugged our kids…
… they scratched at their own faces and pulled their own hair for stimulation

While we cried over scraped knees…
… they moaned in their loneliness
While we brushed our daughters’ beautiful hair…
… they had their heads shaven to stave off the lice

While we fought off the flu with love and nourishment…
… they got the flu and went Home.
No longer suffering… but so many more still are.
In memory of those that have never felt the love of a family, but have passed away alone.

Poem By: Meredith Cornish who has adopted 5 of these waiting angels.
Click HERE to see Reece's Rainbow's tribute page to all the little ones who died waiting for their mama to find them.
The first photo is of DUSTY who just got home, after being admitted to the hospital for malnourishment. The rest of the photos were taken from various news articles