Pledge for an Adopted Child

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Pledge for an Adopted Child



We did not plant you, true.

But when the season is done,

When the alternate prayers

For the sun and for rain are counted,

When the pain of weeding

And the pride of watching are through,

We will hold you high.



A shining leaf

Above the thousand seeds grown wild

Not by our planting,

But by heaven.

Our harvest.

Our own child.



- Debra Nussbaum Cohen