A single parent, perhaps unwed,
regretting the life she has led.
What happens now it is done,
hide it away from everyone?

A helpless babe found in the trash,
not even wrapped in robe or sash.
Naked twas born and naked died,
for love and care was not supplied.

Did it’s mother have a heart of stone?
This didn’t happen by her alone!
What about the father of the child?
Was his knowledge ever allowed?

Or was it possible not to know,
upon whose sperm this child did grow.
Too many men, too often was laid,
to know for certain who this life made.

God in His mercy, looks on this child,
knowing that it would be born defiled.
Blessed Jesus, born in a manger,
this child, unloved, trashed by a stranger.

The one choice in life we cannot make,
to be born is not the babe’s mistake.
Parents must answer to God above,
for the life they bore and did not love.