A foundling foundling

Looking

For

Home

Wanders

Through

Darkness

And

Travels

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

Nobody's eyes and nobody's face

A foundling

A child disconnected who no longer dries

With a prisoners stare and an orphans eyes

A free floating phantom held together by skin

A small helpless stranger a sign in the wind

Washed into this work in fever and flood

Tears remorse sorry and blood

Abandoned abandoned left at the gate

Cut loose un tethered tattooed by fate

A foundling