Main Page Blog Getting Pregnant Articles Pregnancy Articles Parenting Articles TLOL Article Directory Chinese Gender Chart Pregnancy and Parenting Journals	Going Home Blood, sweat, vomit, tears, At first glance my eyes saw nothing save the usual rejection of one so different edging her way near. The world raced forward at a hungry pace while she held me back saying nothing by way of words and everything with sadness upon her weary face. Homeless beggar tattered and torn wrapped in second hand rags like yesterday’s trash swept out the door nothing but a nuisance to society’s high-born. I watched as people continued down the street some crossing to the other side stumbling over their many packages in their efforts to appear discreet. The stench rose to my nostrils as I watched with shame and I cringed despite myself as this fellow human being reached out for acceptance in a world silently craving for the same. A forever touch filled me with a warming glow and we walked hand in hand People stopped to stare and some shook their heads at this crazy woman with her outcast in tow. She leaned on me even though she wasn’t all that old a hard life had robbed her of her youthful stride and as I fed her food for her weary body she began to feed my lost soul. She was all weathered wisdom wrapped in forgiveness a product of a lost way of life one who had seen the other side of lonely and once walked in wedded bliss. How she came to be so alone took hours of living, but only moments to see that hers was a story lived by many Yet, one which society would never condone. In my arrogant youth I had ignored the truth and stubbornly chosen to go about my own destiny with blinded eyes and deafened ears to the horror which had wasted her youth. I glanced her way and my heart filled with pride "We’re going home now," I said She held my head to her breast and I wept with joy to once more have my MOTHER at my side. (c) Christine G. Law All Rights Reserved Comments to Poet Share This Page With A Friend -- Would You Like To Read More Poems? -- Parent Prose Main Page Poems about Adoption Poems about Motherhood Poems about Babies and Children Poems about the Death of a Child Poems about Miscarriage Poems about Parenthood Poems about Pregnancy Poems about Growing Up Poems about Special Occasions Letters to Baby Poetry Collections Journals and Essays Books about Writing Poetry The Labor of Love Main Page