When 16th Street Baptist Church Was Bombed

As four little girls 
closed 
their eyes for their
Eternal Repose
The world rose, and 
stretched its bones, while
the Darkness was 
illuminated with Truth
and shown to the World 
How it revelled and 
rebelled in droves 
against changing norms
way down South, where 
it thought it would not 
be known

But those 
four little girls would 
not go quietly 
as those rebels 
intended; as they
were expected 

Though they could
speak no more, they
did not die in vain, 
they did not die
for nothing 

Your bomb did 
not kill 
it amplified 
their voices
And gave strength 
to those who then 
had to stand up 
to your droves