tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66967194661975019242024-03-04T20:41:38.777-08:00Sharilee SharesSharileehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067148382299727349noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6696719466197501924.post-2000624459878317752013-12-31T05:48:00.000-08:002013-12-31T06:03:33.009-08:00Without You<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I have been with my husband for seven years now and it has not been easy. When we first got together, we were both shattered inside, but we didn't know it. Instead of facing the brokenness within ourselves, we took it out on each other. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first four years were like war years with a brief lulls of peace in between. But we kept trying. And then, three years ago, real peace kicked in. The past began to fall away. And we saw the face of true love, in one another. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, I know I would not want to live without him. I know that this man in my life gives me so much contentment. Without him, I often was a "sad song," but with him, life is exciting! </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One son.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One weeping,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One won.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two families</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One child</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No contact,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Forms filed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two last names,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One blood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cause a flood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The small boy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An angel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He sits</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Watching life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Through the slits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sits all alone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No one to call,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No one to phone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her baby is gone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh where could he be,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Will he ever come home,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Will he ever know me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One son,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both love him so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two mothers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One son,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But he doesn't know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He loves his mother,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The one that he knows,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She holds him close,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He knows no other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She holds him and cries,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For she knows he is sad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She doesn't know why,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But she knows it is bad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She's been given this child</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To clothe and to feed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But she doesn't know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">About the terrible deed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When a small child was taken</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Away from its Mom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"To help her," they said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Til better times come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"We'll watch him,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We'll keep him,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Til you get alright.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Give him back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When your burden is light."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So she gave him away,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the promise they made,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just a wee bit of help,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A tiny small break,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And in a short time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She asked for her son,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the people had taken him,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And gone on the run.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They gave him away,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But they had no right,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They named him again,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And the mother did fight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the mother,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She lost</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And her son</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Was the cost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One son</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both love him so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One son</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But she didn't know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The mother who got him</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thought he wasn't wanted,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She never knew</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why he was so haunted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She thought he was left,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's she was told,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How would she know,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That he had been stolen?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two mothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One son.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But nobody won.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1964, my husband was taken from his mother by the child welfare authorities for what was supposed to be a short, temporary period. She trusted them, needing the help, with several other children also in tow. He was never given back and was adopted two years later into a Caucasian family who loved him, but never knew that his birth mother had not agreed to the adoption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My husband loves his adoptive family, and they love him very much. He has also re-united with his blood family, who also love him. That said, however, the scars are still there for him. He was torn from his mother at the age of six weeks, and placed in foster care, where he endured abuse. By the time he was adopted two years later, he already had great difficulty in forming attachments to others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My husband was part of a historical event called the <a href="http://www.originscanada.org/the-stolen-generation/">60's Scoop </a>-- when thousands of babies in Canada were taken from First Nations mothers, and handed over to non-First Nations mothers. This series of poems is my gift to him -- to share his story -- and to help us understand what he and thousands of others went through.</span>Sharileehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067148382299727349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6696719466197501924.post-59257662200945951482013-06-29T02:03:00.000-07:002014-09-14T22:15:02.446-07:00My husband was a stranger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">My husband</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Was a stranger</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To his kin:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ripped from the resting bosom</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of his desperate mother,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And transported</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To another town,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Where housewives</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Needing pin money</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Took in Indian babies,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Poor things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My husband</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Was adopted,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Grafted in,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Accepted</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">By another family,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A mother saw</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">His desperate face</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And could not</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Look away.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">He sat among them</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Slightly darker,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A little brother</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Added on</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Afterthought</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A broken piece</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Forced to fit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This son</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of Others</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Became Theirs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And he was never told</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why or where the place</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He came from,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He was there,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And that was all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My husband</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Grew up that way</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A stranger to his kin,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A stranger to his skin.</span><br />
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