Cole Publishing

"Lamentations of a Child" reveals the innocence of a smothered child's voice hungering to be heard and displays the pain craving to be soothed. It also brings an awareness of what is still existing in the world today among the lives of many children. This book was challenging, familiar and marvelous.

- Wendy Renee Wise, school teacher,
Calvary Christian Academy

Children should be seen and not heard is not only unreasonable, and absurd but it is also a deplorable misnomer. Yet, all around the world children are experiencing this terrifying and abusive reality. They are seen, but silent...seen, but ignored...seen, but numbed.

From Candace Cole's new release, Lamentations of A Child, the reader will see and hear from every child that was silenced, ignored, and numbed. These remarkable poems echo the deepest wounds and cries of youth who are an intricate part of a wounded generation. Laced into the walls of this riveting collage of poetry are words that communicate and undenyable message. They are words that empower, and bring courage and strength; words that set the spirit free so it can fly again; words that provide medicine for the soul; words that opens the doors too long locked in emotional prisons; and words that awaken a community that has been long asleep to the numbness of our children.

Cole's poems release the voices of children all over the world who have been silenced by abuse, molestation, neglect, depression, and abandonment. It taps on the door of every parents heart to listen a little more and to hear the soul of their children and children around them.

Lamentations Of A Child are not just words that make a lasting impression on your heart, but it is a collection of words that provides food for the mind. It also provides an outlet for the inner child of many adults who silent cries have traveled through their adult lives still un heard. Cole's writings will insure the awareness that abuse still exist today among the lives of our children, and that they will be seen as well as heard!


"Lamentations of a Child" reveals the innocence of a smothered child's voice hungering to be heard and displays the pain craving to be soothed. It also brings an awareness of what is still existing in the world today among the lives of many children. This book was challenging, familiar and marvelous. - Wendy Renee Wise, school teacher, Calvary Christian Academy

		Children should be seen and not heard is not only unreasonable, and absurd but it is also a deplorable misnomer. Yet, all around the world children are experiencing this terrifying and abusive reality. They are seen, but silent...seen, but ignored...seen, but numbed. From Candace Cole's new release, Lamentations of A Child, the reader will see and hear from every child that was silenced, ignored, and numbed. These remarkable poems echo the deepest wounds and cries of youth who are an intricate part of a wounded generation. Laced into the walls of this riveting collage of poetry are words that communicate and undenyable message. They are words that empower, and bring courage and strength; words that set the spirit free so it can fly again; words that provide medicine for the soul; words that opens the doors too long locked in emotional prisons; and words that awaken a community that has been long asleep to the numbness of our children. Cole's poems release the voices of children all over the world who have been silenced by abuse, molestation, neglect, depression, and abandonment. It taps on the door of every parents heart to listen a little more and to hear the soul of their children and children around them. Lamentations Of A Child are not just words that make a lasting impression on your heart, but it is a collection of words that provides food for the mind. It also provides an outlet for the inner child of many adults who silent cries have traveled through their adult lives still un heard. Cole's writings will insure the awareness that abuse still exist today among the lives of our children, and that they will be seen as well as heard!