A Fateful Day

Walking out the door, beyond her garden overgrown

She hurried down the street, this was no time to roam

She would go to the market on her way back home

When she'd picked up her little girl who was waiting all alone

They lived a lonely life, this mother and her child

In a world so sinister, they had no one by their side

We're there for each other, she thought and smiled

Her dear little daughter always foremost on her mind

She trudged along past the old market place

The buzz and the blare would not slow her pace

When all of a sudden a blast hit the street

The light blinded her and blew her up in flames

This has happened before and might happen again

Claiming innocent lives, I wonder what they gain

For oblivious to all this a sweet little girl stood to wait all day

Not knowing that her mother will never come that way