Journey to Katherine

The following are some of my favorite adoption poems:

Take a lump of clay
Wet it, pat it,
Make a statue of you
And a statue of me
Then shatter them, clatter them
Add some water
And break them and mold them
Into a statue of you
And a statue of me
Then, in mine, there are bits of you
And in you there are bits of me.
Nothing shall ever keep us apart



Once there were two women,
Who never knew each other.
One you do not remember.
The other you call Mother.

Two different lives shaped
to make you one
One became your guiding star
The other became your sun.

The first gave you life
The second taught you to live in it.
The first gave you the need for love
And the second was there to give it.

One gave you a nationality
The other gave you a name
One gave you the seed of talent
The other gave you an aim.

One gave you emotions
The other calmed your fears
One saw your first sweet smile
The other dried your tears.

One gave you up...
It was all she could do
The other praid for a child
And God led her straight to YOU.

And now you ask me through your tears
The age old questions through the years.
Heredity or environment.....
Which are you the product of.
Neither my darling......neither
Just two kinds of love.