"THIS WAS MEANT TO BE?"
To destroy a young woman take away her dreams
Why would anyone, God or man
She offers his name, told not to bother
The lawyer, the doctor, the parent she loved
I can see as plain as day
Too change two lives that started as one
If it hadn't been for Joseph, Mary would be
Teri T. A. Mennie
Treat her like trash, Trample her self esteem
Promise her forgetfulness, give her great pain
I don't believe this was "Meant to be
hurt a young girl, not yet a young woman?
I don't understand how anyone could be
so cruel and stupid, then say this was "Meant to be
Its better for all, to not know the father
In those few words, in that simple phrase
the marriage he promised the love that she felt
Was all swept away like yesterdays dirt
wanted one thing, to keep their conscious clean
They shamed and degraded and called her names
A Whore, a tramp, you careless young thing
Then to persist that this was "Meant to be
it was not the hand of God that paved the way
But man in his quest to give and to take
that made the decision, that took you away
By changing all that God and Nature had begun
This is the truth, I hope you can see
You and I were the ones, who were "Meant to be
an unwed Mother, just like me
A BIRTHMOM'S POEM
TO GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE
You had your eyes open a little while ago, but now you just want to sleep
I wish you would open your eyes and look at me
My child, my precious,my angel sent from heaven
this will be the last time we are together
As I hold you close to me and feel your tiny body warm against my own
I look at you
and look at you
I feel as if my eyes can't hold enough of you
For a human being so small
there is alot to look at ...in such a short time.
In a few minutes, they will come and take you
away from me.
But for now this is our time together and you belong to only me.
Your checks are still bruised from your birth
they feel so soft to my finger tips,
like the wing of a butterfly.
Your eyebrows are tightly clenched in concentration
are you dreaming?
You have too many
eyelashes to count
and yet I want to engrave them all in my mind
I don't want to forget anything
about you
Is it all right that you are breathing so rapidly?
I don't know anything about babies
maybe I never will.But one thing for sure
I Love you with all my heart
I love you so much
and there is no way to tell you
I hope that someday you will understand
I'm giving you away
because I love you
I want you to have in your life
all the things I could never have in mine
safety, compassion, joy and acceptance
I want you to be loved for who you are
I wish I could
squish you back inside of me
I'm not ready to let you go
If I could just hold you like this
forever and never have to face tomorrow
would everything be all right?
No, I know
everything will only be all right if I let you go
I just didn't expect to feel this way
I didn't know
you would be so perfect and so beautiful
I feel as if my heart is being pulled from my body
right
through my skin
I didn't know I would feel so much pain
Tomorrow your new mom and dad
are coming to the hospital to pick you up
and you will start your new life
I pray that they will
tell you about me
I hope they will know how brave I have been
I hope they will tell you how
much I loved you
because I won't be around to tell you myself
I will cry everyday somewhere inside of me
because I will miss you so much
I hope I see you again someday
but I want you
to grow up strong and beautiful
and to have everything you want
I want you to have a home and
a family
I want you to have children of your own someday
that are as beautiful as you are
I
hope that you will try and understand
and not be angry with me
The nurse comes into the room
and reaches out her arms for you
Do I have to let you go?
I can feel your heart beating rapidly
and you finally open your eyes
You look into my eyes with trust and innocence
and we lock
hearts
I give you to the nurse
I feel as I could die
Good-bye, my baby
a piece of my heart will be with you always and forever
I love you,
I love you,
I love you
An Adoptee's Plea
They took away the children,
and they took away their names,br
And they gave them new parents.
To hide the shame...
They said none of this would matter
once it was covered up.
But now I'M here to tell you
We have had enough!
We need to know our histories,
our own identities,
its not enough to tell us
we are only adoptees
We need to know our race and culture
and our medical histories
as well as that we'd like to know
how we came to be...
I cannot tell you what it's like
the frustration and the pain.
Words cannot describe it
they would only be in vein.
Just try to understand
what we are asking for,
a vital piece of our own selves
to fill our void, to heal our souls...
~Lori Pringle~
He was in my arms so briefly
In my heart forever
If you can tell me at which point in time my child
Became not mine, tell me?
If you can tell me that the child that grew inside my body, born from love,
Became not mine, tell me?
When did his genetics, his DNA
become not mine, tell me?
When does he not become part of my heart, soul, my very being,
tell me?
No judge, no law can now or ever make this child not mine.
He may have been raised by another mother,
but he will always be mine.
I will always exist in him.
Whether or not he knows it, believes it, or acknowledges it.
I am a part of my son, he lives and breathes because I loved him.
I wanted him.
I have missed all his growing up.
I miss him now.
Please god please anyone,
help me find my son.
~unknown~
