Words2Mother: Reflections and Diatribes

Reflections and diatribes is real time exploration of the twists and turns of parenting in adoption and/or foster care. The author is an adoption professional, an adoptee and adoptive parent. The goal is to explore and inspire commitment and support adopted people and placements.
Tue May 17

MY SALVATION


I remember the day you appeared to me:

beaming smile and twinkling eyes.
loving spirit 
warming the room filling it with charm.

I was dark and vacant
in the days before you:
bitter, confused and afraid.

Smoldering embers of a benevolent
soul kept alive and nurtured by your example.
Loving me so at a time when at my core 
I believed that I was unlovable; lighting the way 
that I might discover the joy of living. 

Standing in the tides of triumphant self-realization
I have finally begun to see.
To see with new eyes the 
eternal truth that is my birth.

You have been my salvation:
my direction and my obsession.
I am no longer walking alone along the shaded path
that love draws from nothing and everything that 
we are.