This week we have two poems from adoptive parents to their children. Both were written by unknown authors. What are some of your favorite adoption-related poems?
“For Our Adopted Child”
You are not the child of our bodies…
But you are the child of our hearts…
You are not the flesh of our flesh…
But you are the joy of our life…
You are the fulfillment of our dreams,
The answer to our prayers,
a gift of god
For which we’re truly thankful…
You are wonderfully our own…
And we love you
As only parents can love their own…
Unnamed Poem
Not flesh of my flesh,
Nor bone of my bone
But still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute,
you didn’t grow under my heart
But in it.