Bøker av Fatimah Layne

Adoption and Foster care are are difficult topics to discuss, and there is a part of the adoption/foster care story that remains hidden and unspoken about for the most part - the story of the birth parent. This poetry collection expresses the grief of a birth parent, through the most harrowing experience of my life. "Post death wishesI impose a time limitI'll give itOne year from nowTo see howI'm living I decidedOn the way home from the suicide centreDirty Thames to the leftTired of deep wishing for courage to diveThat IHad some right to a decent lifeDespiteHaving failed in the greatest endeavourI mightFind something, never betterBut maybe just enough to tetherEnough to delay the boat home And soThe pact was madeInternal, firm were scarred hands that shookSeriously taken, was the promise of that day And loAnd beholdWe are nearingMonth twelveHave I found me a rope?Will it tether or choke?"