A poem for Winnie

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=31293

"She's gone now - free from mortal pain,
To find, at last, her son again,
In some glorious unseen meeting place,
Far beyond this old Earth's face.
Who's left to forgive that awful man
But God Almighty - if He can."

I'm not sure if this isn't one of those subjects that is best left alone. It seems so painful that any attempt to drag art from it, just lets it down.

I appreciate the sentiments behind writing a piece like this - and perhaps it is a way of expressing our humanity and our solidarity with the victims. My problem is that I can't help but start to mentally critique and 'that awful man' seems like a very tepid description for the monster that Ian Brady was. He really is the bogey man - the stuff of every parent's nightmare - not something I want to read poetry about. I will probably cause an uproar by saying that - but each to their own - I'm just expressing an opinion.

this all reminds me of Martha Moxley's mother, and her brother too...and her dad, who died after she was killed. I saw Mrs Moxley in court during the trial (FINALLY!! only 27 years after the crime) and i am quite sure she made all sorts of curses, under her breath and outloud, to this scummy Kennedy cousin.

I was a young adult when these killings occurred and recall the revulsion and the disbelief: the latter used to huge effect by the author Emlyn Williams in the title of his book "Beyond Belief".
Isobel - I could have written "evil" (or "malignant") but chose "awful" since it is a generic term that my mother's generation used to damn anything that they considered "beyond the pale" - and this man and his deeds were/are surely that!
And if war can inspire comment, revulsion and condemnation, then why not another form of killing?
Just my opinion, you understand.