For Daniel – My Foster Son
My son lost all his words today. He looks at me for answers to How hard to be in pieces
He screams and he gets angry, To me it seems forever Dear Daniel how I love you.
So many people love him. His smiles are bright sunshine. Don’t judge him by his words today – © Marti – Foster Mom
I don’t know where they’ve gone.
They’ve stolen all his smiles,
and snatched away his songs.
questions he can’t ask.
I tell him how I love him,
and that this too shall pass.
that fall apart this way.
His drunken walk, his drooling,
gross motor skills they say.
his eyeballs roll around.
He jerks, his eyelids flutter,
seconds pass in real time.
that my son has gone away.
Who will he be when he returns?,
a boy or a baby?
Dear God please show me how,
to pick up all his pieces and
once again make Daniel well.
So many yet to know.
When he peeks out to show us,
how the real Daniel grows.
His hugs, though rare, are truth.
God has given Daniel
his blessings, thru and thru.
they may be far and few.
So all his little pieces
can reflect themselves to you.