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the baby brigade

Talia Stroud

Artwork by:
​Ana Henningsen​
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new-found love lost
and precious bravery won.

a noble sacrifice given
to save our daughters and sons.

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we slowly sank
aboard the Titanic.
children clung to their mothers,
the crew in a panic.

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will we remember
anything of that day?
it changed everyone’s lives
and changed some men’s names.

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from that criminal hoping for a better life
and the young sailor boy,
to the man helping his brand-new wife
and the old man with his family destroyed.

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forming a line on the steps of the stairs
standing there arm in arm,
the woman smiled through her tears
seeing her daughter safe from harm.

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that fatal Titanic did not hurt our soul,
I have faith in humanity’s kindness.
waiting in line silently crying,
I saw the baby brigade.

 

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