The Foster Boy doesn't understand
the way a family functions
Alcoholic mother, abusive stepdad
Damaged his emotional junctions
He's wired up wrong
not his fault
And there's no one who can fix it
Loving foster parents try
But all they get is lies and shit
He doesn't want to be this way, but
change is proving hard
A few years he's been here with them now
But he's every bit as scarred
Despite the care they give him
and the love that they bestow
Academically a Grade A student
Yet emotionally, he's years below
the age that he should be at
And can't cope or communicate
Endless social workers
taking months to procrastinate
Over the best course of action
Who's help does he need?
Psychoanalyst, psychotherapist
Doctors, CBT
Abandonment, Co-dependency
They really can't agree
As to how to treat 'his issues'
But they're just too blind to see
Because no one actually asks him
What's really in his head
He knows he has a chance here
But that he'll mess it up instead
He could be part of this family,
forever if he wanted
Yet his best efforts to fit in
are difficult and stunted
In six months time at this rate
He'll be transferred back into the 'system'
It's not what he wants, & he knows he'll be fucked
But it's the only place he can function
His real mum's having her sixth kid
Another affair on a whim
Four brothers already in care
And now a sister for him
Says she's gonna get cleaned up, sort herself out and win him back
Then shoves a tenner in his hand-
Saving enough for her favourite child called crack...
He knows that she's a liar and will let him down again
It's not a matter of if
-it's just a matter of when
He lost all trust at an early age
With no nurture, bonding or care
What's good or bad, right or wrong
Who said anything about fair?
He's another kid who stood no chance, left fallen by the wayside
Lost, abandoned, misunderstood
Forever running with nowhere to hide.
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Fly10 Leigh 2012
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