August 1979

August, 1979

Pandemonium describes that day,
a family torn, broken apart.
The Judge hitting the gavel,
“Screaming order, order in the court!”

It was your response that would change,
the lives of everyone in that courtroom.
Three little girls down the hall,
were just minutes away from
becoming orphans, wards of the
state, but they could never imagine,
they just kept playing…….

You walked down that hall
directly towards us,
You looked directly into my
eyes, the words you spoke,
let’s just say they’re embedded
in my memory.

“Take care of your sisters and don’t let them
straighten your hair.”
You walked away; I became a ward of the state,
an orphan, August 1979.