Adoptee poem - Fragile Flames
Poem in remembrance of the children who perished in the Vietnam Babylift crash in 1975
In the great expanse of sky you soar
rising with the April heat.
Open your eyes little ones;
do you see?
below lies your country,
serene and vigilant
calling you to its embrace,
the primal cradle of your birth.
My brothers and sisters
I have not forgotten,
such fragile flames
extinguished
in mid-flight.
