Heartless

Author: Holly Noel

An adoptive Mom

 
 

They said she was heartless,

and they were right;

For she placed her heart

in someone else's hands.


 

They say to bear a child is to have your heart

walk forever outside your body.

And her heart was now softly sleeping

in another's arms, making family plans.


 

So, indeed she is heartless,

and she cries deeply once again.

For she lost her heart and her dreams

in one single stroke of gavel and pen.


 

And she wonders, will she ever see her heart again?


 

For her heart lives and breathes and moves

and laughs in the sunshine,

though she cannot see daily proof.


 

She wonders if she can be even more

a part of her heart's life,

Or if she must forever stay aloof.


 

She relys on reports from others

that her heart is OK,

becoming more beautiful

and growing bigger everyday.


 

And she may wonder if her heart is happy,

though others tell her, it is so.

Friends may call her to "move on" and

wonder "why can't she let go?"


 

So here she is heartless,

though a heroine she has become

to those she handed her heart to

wrapped in a blanket and all her love.

 

Copyright © 2003 Holly Noel - Do not use without permission



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