Mater Dolorosa

Something broke your concentration
So many chores, so short a day
Disbelief, then realisation
The children only went to play
Turned your back for just a moment
Hardly careless on your part
Chilling sound, childless silence
Clamps cold steel around your heart

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Stone-cold grief
Forgiving as a wall
Makes us weep with you
Makes us weep for you
Weep for us all
Your sacrifice
Made for us all

Mothers who've known these moments
Of the nightmare we all dread
Reach out to you in your sorrow
Silently what can be said
Chorus

Something broke your concentration
So many chores, so short a day
Disbelief, then realisation
The children only went to play

Chorus.