Casa Padre on Father’s Day

Texas sun

Standing sentinel

Stop the run

Sons seized 

Sabotaged dreams

Silenced voices

1400 sons

Now alone

Warehoused and Wal-marked for life

Once family future

Once newborn joy

Once swaddled in love

Suspended in two worlds

What was – what could be

What never will be any where

Children still

Children no more

Children dismissed

Parentless

Homeless

Hopeless

Imprinted forever

“Unclean”

Unwelcome

Sons with sun slivers

Sons with no futures

Sons with jailed present

No more

No way

Go away

Children

Children

Children

Conscience-bearing

Faith Defining

Values-choosing

1400 Sons

“the least of these”

God detained in Casa Padre on Father’s Day

-written by Clara Young, June 14, 2018

Grace and Peace,

Rev. Clara