REFLECTION

Others who are like me

Well some long to know

Those with no desire

Learned to let it go

From the moment I knew

A yearning deep inside

Puzzle piece was missing

Emptiness filled my life

All I ever wanted

Was to learn your name

What might you look like

Are we both the same

I loved my adopted family

Everyone held inside

Yet still incomplete

A loss I had to find

From the time I had babies

I believed in my mind

Certainly you felt like me

My fragile life you held inside

I could never imagine

Any other way

Believing a bond of mother

Was eternal to her grave

That day finally came

I looked into your eyes

Standing in amazement

For they looked just like mine

A reflection in the mirror

Resembling most of me

Looking at myself

So hard to believe

I learned of who you are

We spent the whole day

Getting to know you

Why you gave me away

Taxing to conceive

Cloned beyond belief

An empty shell surrounded

Not parallel of me

My illusions were shattered

Cut deep into my soul

All I’d ever hoped for

Now needed to let go

You chose a different path

That didn’t include me

A bond from a mother

Was never meant to be