An Adoption

A Poem by Aliki Storye

I remember that time. Nine months of pure agony I didn’t want the child. I wasn’t ready,in so many levels. No job. No house. No husbund. No family. No love. How could I give love to something that deserves it the most When no one taught me how… I did it. I gave her away. No I don’t regret it She will be happy… But now, After so many years I have everything I ever wanted A job,house,husband, Happiness?? Most of the time yes. But I wonder, How she looks What’s her personality like What her goals are… And a little part inside me wishes I had her, with me now. I see girls,her own age. Strangers in the street and I wonder, If she is one of them If I ever laid my eyes upon her Without knowing. And that kills me.