A foundling

A FOUNDLING
A FOUNDLING
LOOKING
FOR
HOME
WANDERS
THROUGH
DARKNESS
AND
TRAVELS
ALONE
A baby
Unwanted
Unloved and unblessed
Left on a doorstep
An unbidden guest
A shivering shadow
A child with no name
Severed
Surrendered
Sinking in pain

Conceived in the gale of a ruinous storm
Partially killed, partially born
Abandoned, abandoned, falling through space
With nobody's eyes and nobody's face
A foundling

A child disconnected who no longer cries
With a prisoners stare and an orphans eyes
A free floating phantom held together by skin
A small helpless stranger, a sigh in the wind

Washed into this world in fever and flood
Tears remorse, sorrow and blood
Abandoned, abandoned left at the gate
Cut loose un-tethered tattooed by fate
A Foundling.

I learned something new today... My Great Great Great Great Grandfather may have been a foundling... Makes a whole lot of sense to me... But I do still have to connect the dots... There are a ton of DNA matches that I have to connect to the Family Tree.