my dayz after

It's been two years and I still feel the pain like it was yesterday. I may not have been their biological mother but I was there mother.  The emptiness is no different than if I have carried you for 9 months.  The betrayal is no less than the one who brought them into our home.
To my girls Saria Rose and Angel Thomas I will always love you

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