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The Powers
That Be
(written
regarding agencies, lawyers, judges, adoption bureaucracies)
You took
away my family.
You took away my home.
You erased away my history,
now most of it is gone.
What gives to you the right
to do this injustice unto me?
How can you be so blinded?
How is it you can't see?
Your
stealing from the innocent
are you so unaware?
You're playing God with all our lives.
Did you think we wouldn't care?
Who gave to you the authority
to decide how we will live?
Who granted you this power?
It was not theirs to give.
You treat
us as possessions.
We are not yours to own.
How did you get the notion,
you can tell me where is home?
Do not dictate to me about
how I should live my life
or who I can call mother,
then take away my rights.
The
answers to life's questions,
you say I need not know.
You're asking the impossible,
the questions only grow.
What it is I'm asking for is
for you to understand.
Until I have those answers,
I can not know who it is I am!
written by: Karen Joiner.
Her email address is JNRMCK@aol.com
http://hometown.aol.com/krnbrwnjnr/opinions/index.htm
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