Adopted – Poem
Adopted
A Trauma-Fueled Poem
A powerful trauma-fueled poem about a young girl’s darkest moment and the stranger who saves her. “Adopted” explores despair, rescue, hope, and found family.
Trigger Warning: This poem contains themes of self-harm, suicide attempts, trauma, and medical crisis. Reader discretion is advised.
Adopted is an emotional narrative poem that follows a young girl in her darkest moment and the stranger who refuses to let her slip away. Through raw imagery and sincere vulnerability, the poem explores despair, rescue, and the unexpected ways hope can return. At its heart, it is a story about being seen, being saved, and finally finding the family she never knew she deserved.
Adopted
Sitting in the darkness
staring into the night,
She trembles at the thought
of what was, could, and might.
Not thinking of the consequences,
She reaches for the knife.
She makes a deep incision
one that might just take her life.
Her tears keep falling
more now than ever before.
She bows her head in prayer:
“Please help me, Lord!”
A man was walking by, and
he heard the young girl crying.
He saw what she had done;
He saw that she was dying.
He held the girl in his arms,
told her she’d be okay.
He called upon an ambulance,
Help was on the way.
The man looked at the girl
with tear-filled eyes.
He didn’t understand
Why this girl would want to die.
Minutes came and passed
as the ambulance showed up.
They got her to the hospital
And quickly sewed her up.
When the little girl awoke,
She knew she was alive.
Someone had helped her.
It made her feel good inside.
The doctor came in to see her,
and he told her what the man had done.
She began to cry;
She was a happy, grateful one.
The man came in to see her.
She told him of her life.
About how she was an orphan,
and how her day was always night.
The man called Social Services,
and asked them for the right
to take the little girl
and put her up for the night.
A few weeks later,
the adoption papers were signed.
The little girl had a father.
The man who saved her life.
