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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_3668" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3668" style="width: 392px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/that-is-not-a-smile/bereaved/#main" rel="attachment wp-att-3668"><img class=" wp-image-3668 " title="Bereaved" alt="Bereaved" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bereaved.jpg" width="392" height="294" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3668" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry<strong> [Bereaved]</strong></figcaption></figure>For the families of those that died in man’s acts of violence,<br>
I offer to you my deepest condolences.
<p>I see on your faces as tears suffuse;<br>
What a shock it must have been, when came the news.</p>
<p>The misfortune is great, plotted by evil hands;<br>
Yet there’s a reason that only God understands.</p>
<p>Let not your bleeding tears drown your trust in Him,<br>
But love and hope should fill your hearts to the brim.</p>
<p>Love – to forgive and your broken-hearts amend.<br>
Hope – that this savagery soon will end;</p>
<p>That your anguish will be o’er,<br>
And in grief, shall you not shiver.</p>
<p>You’ll be strengthened to endure,<br>
Forget, laugh, remember… but feel your pains no more…</p>
<p><strong><em>*Dedicated to the families of those murdered by the Boko Haram terrorist group…</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Written by: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kingsley.ayi" target="_blank">Kingsley U. Ayistar</a><br>
Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</p>
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