A baby
A FOUNDLING
Unwanted

LOOKING
Unloved and unblessed
FOR

Left on a doorstep
HOME
An unbidden guest

WANDERS
A shivering shadow
THROUGH

A child with no name
DARKNESS
Severed

AND
Surrendered
TRAVELS

Sinking in pain
ALONE


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 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.