All The loss I have been through has left me lugubrious.

I am the child who was given a second chance.

A second chance to be loved

by a family who comes home every night to take care of their children

I am the guileless child

left behind with her six other brothers and sisters.

I am altruistic

from all the times I had struggled and faced with pain and loss.

I am often tremulous

because I’m afraid of losing my family again.

All these memories of the pain and loss in my life makes me who I am …

I am benevolent because  I know what it’s like to be mistreated.

I am always going to be the girl with the heart scared from loss and pain.

I’m not that broken girl who stands in the shattered mirror.