With Clarity and With Warning

With clarity and with warning
I must speak of what's alarming
When reverence for life is lost
The unborn are who pay the cost

For God has promised prosperity
To those who don't commit atrocity
And when laws pass that sanction this act
What justification can excuse this fact...

To define meaningful life by gestation
Cannot be done by vote or legislation
For wonders begin when the first cells unite
As DNA's established unto a new life

With fifty million deaths each year
The senseless assault has been made clear
That the innocent and the voiceless
Have not been heard and are thus choiceless

They're the casualties of a war
That's against the purpose we're here for
Which is to gain bodies of destiny
For eternity, as heirs to rest in peace

Just like an astronaut who is set for space
One cannot abort once the lift off is made
For the journey goes on in life, then in death
And can't be stiffled by the prevention of breath

And thus one cannot unchoose a consequence
As trails lead to parenthood beyond a fence
"Quick there's a way to repent and make repair
Surrender that child to another's kind care...

Dear Mother, of the fetus with two hands and feet,
Once you've felt it move inside, can you still that heart beat?
How sad the fact it will never know a kiss
And my eyes mist for all the joy this life will miss"

Can there be repentance- with God's laws so exact?
Is there any hope for those who've chosen this act?
The answer is YES!- to those who truly repent
Then the sinner's no longer harrowed up and bent

Anyone's life is not meant to be destroyed
We're all part of God's creations here to be enjoyed
And as life comes from life without accident
May we reverence God, that we're each heaven sent

Elder Russell M. Nelson
Abortion: An Assault on the Defenseless
Ensign, October 2008, 32