CONSENT

                  CONSENT

A official letter came in the mail

Showed my real name as a babe

Another paper came as well

Saying that other people could have me as well

The signature I did take note

It was my mothers consent to give me the boot

Now I have signed so many things

My wife signed to have her breast taken away

So why should think anything else

Other than I was not wanted for better or worse

Now as the years have swiftly flown

I know consents are not as shown

Some were drugged and given a paper

To legalise taking from a mother

Others signed in fear you know

Of parents who threatened to disown

The stories told are quite horrific

Of mother’s suffering most significant

But some did sign in relief you know

For that little problem to just go

But even them now do suffer

Because decisions made that last forever

The heart does know my mother was made

To sign me away so with her I could not go

But when the brain kicks in a voice can appear

Asks is this the truth for it sounds weird

Did she dump me like a hot potato?

Or was she forced, as the heart knows

Murray Legro  (Kerry Clark)