From Heart To Heart
Children placed in foster care are
quickly shuffled from heart to heart.
Breaking links in a chain of love
goodbye; precedes every new start.
Wary eyes scan every fresh face,
trying to catch a glimpse of hope.
But intolerance and half-truths
obscures their sight, and so they cope.
Love; is but an empty promise
delivered by a silver tongue.
For it is oft misunderstood
or disbelieved in hearts so young.
They are shackled to hope and fear,
feelings felt from an early age.
And upon questioning their fate,
they oft succumb to inner rage.
And are deemed undesirable
right up to their eighteenth birthday.
Upon which, labeled a burden,
they are abruptly sent away.
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