Amateur poetry from an amateur poet

Orphan

I found myself longing for a home I did not belong to

Homesick for a place I could never call mine

And it hurt to think about it

How do I feel safest in a heart you never let me into?

Your warm empty arms

That you've never held me in

Do you even remember my name?

Or am I just another face you passed by?

I thought you cared about me

I thought you promised to care for everyone

That looked for safety in you

So, why did you forget me?

You locked me out of your heart

You left me out here to die

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A/N: While the poem talks about being abandoned by a person, I wrote this poem one night when I was thinking about a country, where I was born. I'm adopted and my adoption was international, so I don't know much about my birth country, Orphan refers to my feelings of my birth country. How I feel about where I was born, how I felt that I was just forgotten, but I still miss it, even though I don't remember anything from there