This is a poem that I wrote after hearing a quote from an African father who couldn't find his child after its adoption overseas to Europe.
Like a coin
Like a coin falling in the ocean
you're drifting away
like a coin hidden in the ocean
beneath you will stay
Like a coin falling in the ocean
I want you back
like a coin hidden in the ocean
I’m losing track
Like a coin falling in the ocean
only memory will last
like a coin hidden in the ocean
leaving just the past.
Like a coin falling in the ocean
I’m mourning for you
like a coin hidden in the ocean
nothing more I can do
Thei Geurts
16-05-2002