Abandoned Children

Words for An Abandoned Child in Starbucks - Sonnet. Children go special places with their parents expecting to be delighted and loved, not abandoned to a cellphone.

When I was three years old my mother abandoned me, signed away her parental rights to the state. I became a ward of the court that day and I began my life not as an orphan exactly, but as something much more complicated.

Child AbuseWatch's Child Advocacy Award presentation to Vicki Tucci Esq., with Mayor Lois Frankel in West Palm Beach Nov 13, 2009 at 3pm