Into the Wind

Thank You

Thank you Mother for giving me up
Knowing that you couldn't raise me
Thank you for the hardest of times
When your decision felt like a crime

Thank you too for sharing me
As I danced on another's knee
Thank you for the good times and bad
Each one a lesson both sweet and sad

You mightn't have known how much you gave
How your decision surely did save
A young and unwanted child
From your tirades both meek and mild

I thought of you so often when at times I cried
And then would laugh as I wondered who had lied
Was it me who thanks did give
Or was it you who bid me live