I touched briefly yesterday on the links in life that adoption severs. My posts during NaBloPoMo and Adoption awareness month will be brief due to my arm injury. So, I'm going to post another poem and may do so for the remainder of the month, at least until I'm better.
Adoption does not guarantee a child of a good home. It just offers them a different one. I fell through the cracks of adoption. My mother at age 17 wanted me, no one else wanted her to keep so I was relinquished to adoption. It was not a money issue it was a social stigma issue. My adoptive parents couldn't bond with me. I lost out on belonging in two families. It didn't have to be that way but adoption dictated it did.
Sometimes all the words in the world get lost in translation. Art can speak volumes. I hope the poem below does that for those who can't comprehend the darker side of adoption. This side so many of us live.
Equations
They say that one and one makes two but I'm not sure if this is true.
In this case one and one made three explaining how I came to be.
Then three came in between the sum divides them back to one and one.
These equations seem to break all the laws of give and take.
But life not always plays by rules, nor by facts we learned in school.
I know this all so very well and only hope to "show and tell".
When one and one took separate paths that no one needs to "do the math".
To know this story problem's mine.
I'm the remainder left behind.
Adoption does not guarantee a child of a good home. It just offers them a different one. I fell through the cracks of adoption. My mother at age 17 wanted me, no one else wanted her to keep so I was relinquished to adoption. It was not a money issue it was a social stigma issue. My adoptive parents couldn't bond with me. I lost out on belonging in two families. It didn't have to be that way but adoption dictated it did.
Sometimes all the words in the world get lost in translation. Art can speak volumes. I hope the poem below does that for those who can't comprehend the darker side of adoption. This side so many of us live.
Equations
They say that one and one makes two but I'm not sure if this is true.
In this case one and one made three explaining how I came to be.
Then three came in between the sum divides them back to one and one.
These equations seem to break all the laws of give and take.
But life not always plays by rules, nor by facts we learned in school.
I know this all so very well and only hope to "show and tell".
When one and one took separate paths that no one needs to "do the math".
To know this story problem's mine.
I'm the remainder left behind.
"Im the remainder left behind"
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes, we are.
We are Linda. And, it's tough because no matter how rationally we know it's not about "us" it's about the situation and adoption, emotionally our hearts don't get how a mother can accept some of her children and reject others. I didn't truly 'get' how monumental this was until I had children of my own. I will never really get a grasp on it either I just deal with it the best I can, I know we all do.
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