WHY?

IN AN ANGEL CASTLE, JUST BEYOND MY EYE,
MY JEMMA PLAYS WITH ANGEL TOYS
THAT MONEY CANNOT BUY.

AT NIGHT WHEN ALL IS QUIET, AND
SLEEP FORSAKES MY EYES,
I HEAR TINY FOOTSTEPS COME
RUNNING TO MY SIDE

I DREAM A DREAM AND LET OUT A
SIGH AND CARESS HER IN MY SLEEP.

NOW WHO AM I TO WISH HER BACK,
INTO THIS WORLD OF STRIFE.
NO! PLAY ON MY DARLING JEMMA
YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.

NOW THERE IS ONE THING THAT I
RATE ABOVE ALL OTHER.
I HAVE KNOWN TRUE GLORY,
I AM STILL HER MOTHER.

IN MEMORY OF OUR DAUGHTER
JEMMA ELIZABETH RIGBY
08-08-1988 TO 09-01-1989.

Sheila Rigby

PITY II (Parents who have Interred Their Young Twice) is the parents' support group set up in the wake of the organ retention scandal
at Alder Hey Hospital (Liverpool, UK). It aims to provide self help support and advice to affected families.

Keywords: PITY II, pity II, pity ii, PITY 2, PITY2, pity 2, pity2, Never Again, never again,
Liverpool, liverpool, organ, retention, alder hey, heart, inquiry, Redfern, redfern, scandal, support, poem, poetry,