The legend of an adopted child

Een tijdje geleden was ik aan het googlen en kwam ik dit gedicht tegen van iemand die zelf geadopteerd was. Zij had naar iemand een gedicht gestuurd, over de liefde voor een kind van de adoptiemoeder en de biologische moeder. Het is een Engelstalig gedicht en ik wil het graag met jullie delen, maar vooral ook met jou lieve Luan:


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 yours one
one became your guiding star
the other became your sun.

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

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

one gave you emotion
the other calmed your tears
one saw your first sweet smile
the other dried your tears.

one gave you up......
it was all she could do
the other prayed for a child
and God let her straight to you

and now you ask me trough your tears
the age old question through the years
hereditary or environment
which are you the product of!?

neither my darling, neither
just two different kinds of love.

Liefs je mama