Love Like No Other

Love is sometimes elusive

Sometimes fleeting, maybe even temporary

Romantic love is most often a source of pain

But this is not the love I write about here

The love I feel here is unending

Nothing done by this one can kill that

It's the love of a parent for a child not their own

I have not been blessed with a living child of my own

But the Powers That Be have blessed me with the children of others

The first of which is so important her name is tattooed over my heart

From the moment I first saw those light colored eyes

This child stole my heart like no other

And has been placed above all others

The greatest pain I feel is a disconnect with this child

This little one I've helped raise seems lost to me now

And the pain is too much to bear

For so long I've had a child attached to my hip

or her hand in my hand

As I moved throughout the world

Now I've had that yanked away from me

But i need her to know this truth

This one inescapable piece of pure honesty

There is no way to replace that love

From near or far, my feelings are always the same

If I am needed, I'm always around for you

Even though circumstances have kept us apart,

your place remains within my heart

Though you are not my child by blood

In my heart my child you remain