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
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