Lost, Forsaken, but not Forgotten

Not many people know what it's like. Waking up in the morning and not seeing anyone you know. Going to sleep at night wondering where everyone is. Your questions are met with answers that don't make sense in your head, but yet are true nonetheless. You begin to ask yourself what you did wrong, what was it that you did that made everyone leave you alone? You can't find anything when you look back, but that doesn't satisfy your thirst for knowledge. No one's there by your side save your shadow, and at this point, even that is of little comfort. There's no one there to love you, to hold you. No one's there to ask how your day has been, or what you learned recently. Your shadow isn't going to give you hugs and kisses and tickle you till your blue in the face. It can't teach you anything you haven't already learned, or get you into the mood to do what you know how to do. No one's there to take you to the pool on a hot day, or the park on a warm day. No one's there to get you dressed warmly to play in the snow outside or take you to the top of the hill to sled down the hill. Furiously, you demand answers, demanding to know where your parents are. Coldly, brutally, you are met with reality. Your father wants nothing to do with you. You were the unfortunate side-effect of a careless young girl's one night stand. A burden on his shoulders he's all too willing to pass off to the next person. Your mother, too caught up into the lifestyle that has already claimed the lives of millions. Just like your father, all too willing to pass you off to the next person. You are a burden, a mistake, a reminder of how your parents messed up their lives, and the lives of those around them, with one choice. That's how you're viewed, and thus, how you're treated. It's a tragedy. I wish I could say that this is a cruel joke, that you'll wake up in the morning in the arms of a loving family. Alas, the cold reality is not so. For some kids, this is all too true. The reality may be too much to bear some days, feeling as though there is no one there for you. You ask where your mommy and daddy are, crying yourself to sleep, feeling absolutely hopeless and alone. But I say to you, keep your head up. Mayhap your parents have abandoned you, forsaken you, but you are not forgotten or alone. Your aunts, your uncles, your family who lives just outside your line of sight, have loved you since the day you were born. They have cared for you and provided for you to the best of their ability. Each day their hearts break and they weep for you, poor child. They want to rescue you from your nightmare, but they can't always come and whisk you away like you, or they'd, like to. Even so, do not lose hope. Just because they can't be there to pick you up each time you fall, to comfort each time your alone and sad, doesn't mean their love can't reach you. Keep your head up, remember those who still care, and fight to see the next day. Why? Because the ones you love want to see you grow up big and strong, to be able to stand and hug them with tears of joy running down everyone's faces. You may feel Lost, you may have been Forsaken, but you are by no means Forgotten.