FOUND

I've found you!
It's me!
Your long lost child.
Now an adult...
Yet still a child in many ways.

The sound of your voice is not familiar
But it brings joy to my heart.
Face-to-face we are strangers,
Yet there is a feeling of comfort in your presence.

Moments of awkwardness
Intersperse moments of total ease.
Testing the waters,
I call you Mom ...
And you smile.

I can tell that your heart, like mine
Is full of happiness and relief.
Secrets unveiled and tossed aside,
Our long separation has ended.
Peace can take the place of pain and loneliness.

We are whole once again.

© 3/98 IRM