Dear Father

‎'Dear Father'

Forget me not, dear father,

For you have bestowed demons

On a child of innocence

Who has let them loose

Into her mind

In bedding them deeply there

Forget me not, Dear Father

For the sins of omission

Have overtaken me

And the battle rages on

I need your strength

And for my need to be free

Forget them not, dear Father

When they come to you in fear

Forgive them with compassion

Bring the child before them

Let them weep at her feet

So she may forgive them too.

Tracey-Lee Newson