Christine Poem by James Casey

Christine

No child should ever be left alone
A ward of the state doesn't make you grow

Parents who abandon their young
Should be taken out back and shot with a gun

But to abandon just one and save the rest
Sends the black sheep through a terrible test

Think of your sisters alive in the town
While you are constantly being put down

Orphanages aren't places for family with kin
Foster homes cannot make up there's no family within

The loner has no one to cheer him on
Or to tell him how good a job he has done

He has spent all his life trying to prove
He shouldn't have been sent out of the groove

Today a full sixty years have passed
That boy still cannot have any friends that last

His trust has been ruined by parents that's true
But now he's found trust, he has trust in you

My Christine

Jim 1988