Liberty's Child

In the land of milk and honey

A family weeps, a mother cries

As their Terri is being starved

Right before their very eyes;

The sweet lips that once sang

"America God shine his light on thee"

Are now cracked and dry

No water for Terri in the land of the free;



With lips parched and dry

Terri looks into her mother's eyes

from eyes sinking back into her eye-sockets

And asks with her eyes "why"?

With a heart that had no more tears

Terri's mother leaned over

and whispered in Terri's ear

"God has shined His light on you

You are the one God chose to walk the mile

You, my Terri, are Liberty's Child."

With lips parched and dry

Terri looks into her mother's eyes

from eyes sinking back into her eye-sockets

And asks with her eyes "why"?

And, that is my question to you

who are free to taste the water"Why?"

Why, in the (once) greatest country on earth,

Does disabled Terri Schiavo have to die?

If you are a father or mother

look into the faces of your children

And tell me how will you answer them

When the time comes for them to ask:

"What does liberty really mean?

When you saw Terri's mom and dad cry

What did you do.....and what was your answer

to Terri Schindler-Schiavo when she asked you "Why?"

-Janice Sanford