Orphan

A lost child hiding,
In shadows not of her making,
In silent stillness,
Her whimpers are breaking.
The lamplight glows,
She sleeps in the Cold loneliness,
It’s pain she knows,
A mother taken before bonding,
Was she too lost,
Was she too uncaring,
Was she unable of responding,
Unable of caring.
Was the mother penniless
Was she unwed,
Was she lost and homeless,
Or was she dead.
The baby never knew,
Never learned as she grew,
Lost was a part of herself too.
Alone,
She learned to face a world,
Ever new.