Origins Poems

"In the Best Interests of the Child"

    An empty basket
    A mother's cry
    Gone is her little baby child

    Taken from her
    From someone so young
    In the name of adoption
    We were shunned

    "In the best interests of the child"
    Was the authorities cry
    Who's best interest?
    Were we not the child

    A child so young
    Suddenly so "old"
    Forced into relinquishing,
    Suddenly so cold

    Forced into slave labour
    Delivery of a child - all alone
    Family deserted her
    Authorities neglected and coerced her...

    All "in the best interests of the child?"
    - What a joke!!!!!!! 

    by Toni