An Adopted Child's Voice

Adoption Feelings into Poetry


The Adoptive Parent......

I find myself wondering what I am doing wrong.....
as I try to get through to this child....
Why can't he understand that I love him so.....
Why does this drive him wild....

We tell him each and every day....that we'll love him till the end.....
We show him every single day....
We teach him right from wrong and how to love....
But he does it all the hard way.....

Can he not see that we gave him a better life....
We made him part of our family....
Why can't he back down and forget....
All those old painful memories....

We keep thinking that in some time....
He'll have a change of heart and know.....
That everything we do is for him.....
And he'll let that old life go....

But as time passes year after year....
We find him searching for answers and more...
Of his old family, old life, people in his past....
Old friends, old paths, hurting more....

What choice do we have, to let him go....
To even help him on his way....
To find the answers he so much seeks....
In hopes that he will stay....

@michelleb@