Wake Up Call
What words can I have? What words would I even say? I knew that even with finally finding them, Knowing that you had never been there, What would change that now? But.... Cancer. That sort of changes things doesn't it? Can it? Will it? Does He know? I know he was just like me tossed to the side, Like we didn't exist, We are your children, Yet, he's on your Facebook he shares the last name, Mine hasn't been for awhile now, But, I lost so much time, So, many memories I could have had, So, many Christmases and thanksgivings with your family, But no, You didn't want that responsibility, And my mom lost contact, Her side was never close, I waited many years until I was eighteen, Just so I could begin to search for them, A miracle happened a month before my thirty-fifth birthday, I found your family, Tears of joy ran down my face, As I looked at pictures, Adding connections and stories, Things that finally solved, What you took from me, When you didn't want that respo...