This morning – or by the time this is done it will be “this afternoon” – something has been weighing on me. As a matter of fact, it’s something always with me. Today’s Blog will be more of a serious one as I ask you to give thought to the other side of adoption. We hear so much about parents that have adopted children and how adoption has enriched the lives of both parent and child. I am not refuting that. I am asking you to think of the birth mothers out there today. I have left the poem exactly as when originally pen was put to paper; no tweaks, additions or deletions. Today, this is:
MY LEGACY TO LIFE
Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone
Both I carried craddled beneath my heart
One I love in life – the other is loved through memory
But both I love equally and fiercely
One looks upon me with loving & trusting eyes
While the other looks upon another
Yet both remain forever a part of my heart, of my soul.
One is with me in body – the other in spirit
One I cry with – the other I cry for
One brings to my life sunshine, laughter and love
The other brings to my life a deep longing.
Both make their footprints upon this earth
One with me – the other without me
One continues to touch me with his presence
The other with her absence
and I continue to learn from both.
One is with me day & night, the other is with me no more
Yet bothe are deeply of my life, of my heart, of my soul
I may have given life to both,
. . . but both have returned life to me.
Would that the world could feel a tenth
of what he and she have given me.
written by Ingrid Ewikowski
March 4, 1996
Until next time,
Inge
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