Keep me
as the
apple
of
Your eye.
[Psalms 17:8]
*********************
(6 months old; unborn.)
(Floating peacefully.)
(Sucking on little thumb.)
(Soft gurgle.)
[SMILE!]
(Little gurgle.)
(Large eyes open,
in wonder.)
(Little smile.)
"Da'da."
[LOVING GAZE.]
[PASSIONATE VOICE.]
"My beloved!"
(Little smile!)
(Gurgle.)
"Da'da."
[GENTLE TOUCH.]
[TENDER VOICE.]
"I love you,
My little,
precious one!"
(Little eyes open, wide.)
(Floating, dreamily.)
(Little thumb comes out
of mouth.)
(Tiny smile.)
"Da'da."
[WHISPERING,
TENDERLY.]
"Do you hear
Me;
My sweet, little
precious one?"
(Tiny smile.)
"Da'da!"
[SMILING.]
(Gurgling,
contentedly.)
[TENDER KISS.]
(Tickled squirm.)
"Da'da."
[SLOW LOOK
OF HORROR.]
[VOICE THAT SHAKES
THE MOUNTAIN TOPS.]
"NO!"
(Gurgling stops,
suddenly.)
(Tiny movements
away from horrible
THING.)
(Panicked screams
for help.)
"DA.......
....DA!"
[HEAVENS RUMBLE,
WITH HIS ANGER.]
"NO!
STOP!
EVIL!"
(Horrible THING stabs,
and stabs at tiny, little
head.)
(Blood oozes out.)
(Scream of excrutiating
pain.)
"DA'DA!"
(Weaker scream.)
"...da'da...."
(Tiny thumb is still.)
(Little eyes close,
for the last time.)
(Tiny head is open,
and bloodied, and
oozing.)
[TENDER VOICE.]
"Oh,
My beloved.
My tiny beloved."
(Silence.)
[KISS THE TOP
OF ONE LITTLE,
DEAD TOE.]
[WHISPER.]
"Oh,
My little precious one."
[CRADLE LITTLE DEAD
BODY, IN HIS ARMS.]
What have they
done to you.....
What have they
done........
to
Me?"
***********************
Jesus wept.
[John 11:35]
_________________________
To my good friend,
Denise: a fighter
for the right to life.
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