<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384219" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Tears of Masho</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She gave her child away<br>She had AIDS, they say<br>Her children should have<br>Parents to care of them<br>when she by death<br>should say goodbye to life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And her dear own child was<br>sent to adoption<br>to a far away land, to a land<br>she had never been before-<br>A strange paradise<br>for her child and which<br>She as mother could not reach<br>by her bare feet or sandals.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She did not get the<br>address of the new parents<br>She could not write<br>them in her own tongue<br>She was not even allowed<br>to see the last glimpse<br>of her dear own child, <br>to give her last embrace<br>and words of goodbye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this child, Masho, who<br>used to be cuddled by her<br>own dear mother, <br>cried day and night<br>in the new land thought to<br>be a new paradise.<br>She watered her pillow<br>with her own tears and longing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she could not understand<br>why she had to leave her<br>own mother and playmates<br>in her own village far away<br>just because her mother<br>is condemned to die<br>by AIDS, they say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_________</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Response to the debate of adoption of children in Denmark, to a particular case of the Ethiopian child, Masho. November 27,2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Padillo+Olesen">Elizabeth Padillo Olesen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384219" data-title="The Tears of Masho de Elizabeth Padillo Olesen" data-description="She gave her child away She had AIDS, they say Her children should have Parents to care of them when she by death should say goodbye to life. And her dear own child was sent to adoption to a far away land, to a land she had never been before- A s..."></div> </div> </div>

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