"The Ballad of Birmingham" Pargraph

The poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” is about a young girl going to church (the safest known place) and then is killed in an explosion.  This poem made me feel that there is no place that is really safe from anything. {"No, baby, no, you may not go, For the dogs are fierce and wild, And clubs and hoses, guns and jails Aren't good for a little child."} In the poem knowing that downtown was unsafe and the church was, made it seem like an obvious spot to get bombed. {“Then lifted out a shoe. ‘O, here's the shoe my baby wore, But, baby, where are you?’”} I also felt sad for the mother who had to find her baby’s shoe in the crumbles left from the church.