Dr. Dixie van de Flier Davis
Kristi’s Untitled Poem
I recently posted a blog about how the past continues to live with us in the present. I think Kristi’s poem expresses that reality in the profound observations of a teenage girl. She wrote it for a school assignment, folded it and gave it to her mom in an off-handed way following a particularly difficult time between them.
I am from adoption
I am from camping, fishing and mountains
I am from my Mom and Dad
Who rescued me when I was a baby
I am from cornflakes and frozen blueberries
I am from ragdolls and stuffed animals
I am from a neighborhood with a fishing hole
I am from five pound fish that we all catch
I am from six dogs playing in the yard
I am from cleaning up their messes
I am from a school that teaches me what I want to learn
I am from brothers and sisters that drive me crazy, but I still love them
I am from the “I love you’s” that my mom always says
I am from the soul of the Lord, and the whistling of the wind
I am from something bad and something good.
Kristi’s past is with her in the beginning of her poem, and it is still there at the end. It will always be part of her.
Nancy Ng wrote, “The miracle of adoption is not cure; it is commitment.” Among the resources available through her support organization, FAIR is a recently released DVD titled Sorta Happy, Sorta Sad.
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February 4th, 2010 at 12:54 am
Thank God these kids have you in their corner…and Thank God that you have the wisdom and the gift to communicate and enlighten all of us.