A Child Waits

As dawn breaks over hazy hills
A little light emerges slowly
Fraught with tension
And shielded with pain
Catapulting worries and shame.
Lost to love and lost to night.
A little girl waits full of fright.
She waits forever until this day
To wait some more and to pray.
Have a heart, have a care,
This little girls’ sorrow fills the air.
Her mind has wondered to last night
When she had hoped with all her might
For that angel sent from heaven's door
To come and claim her and take her to it's shore.