A Poem From A Foster Youth

OUR CRY
(Foster Children of Today's World)

by Danielle Bush

We are lost, surrounded on all sides by pure darkness

We are alone, with no one to follow

We look up to the sky and we call on our creator

We ask him to guide us to safety

We hear no response so we continue to stand there in the darkness

We put our hands together and close our eyes

We try to think but our minds show us nothing but the darkness our eyes see

We hear a voice in the distance, but we can't understand what it is saying

We try to follow the voice

One by one we are swallowed into the blackness that surrounds us

The voice continues to speak from a distance

There are two children left, they are trying to find the voice

They cry out for help but the response is still unclear

They continue to walk until one of the two children is swallowed

The last child screams into the blackness,

Did you even try to find us or did you just think we would find you? DO you not understand that as we tried to find you the blackness has swallowed us up one by one? Did your heart not tell you to come father to find us? Did you not know that we were blind and could not survive alone? When we needed you the most you let us down. Now we have been swallowed by this blackness and it will be harder to reach us!

THE END

Something to contemplate on a Wednesday morning...