Foster Home

10/12/15

We give pieces of ourselves

To everyone we love

So that when we are torn down by others

 At least a piece of us remains in tact

But when those guardians leave our lives

That fragment will leave with them

And if too many leave at once

You are nothing if not broken

Your heart does not regenerate

It simply cannot be fixed

For a part of you is missing

And once its gone,

It cannot return

Thats why I find myself confused

As my children leave my side

Somebody has adopted hem

While I am unable to protest

I remember when I got them

Still brand new and curious of the world

Eyes closed and mews vocal

As they cuddled up beside their mothers teat

I watched as they lost their umbilical cords

And smiled as they opened their eyes

I was beside them as they took their first steps

Ad around them as they slept

Every day I fed their mother

Who in turn fed them

And once they were old enough

I fed and gave them water too

I've played with them for hours

And given each a name

So now that they are leaving me,

Eternally, 

Im suffering from a torture so severe

That I have become swallowed

By my own pain