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Abandoned

The baby can't stop crying

As she places it in the box

She finds a dumpster to throw it in

As she walks along the docks

 

There was nothing else, she could do

A mother, at only fifteen

She hurries away as fast as she can

As she hears her baby scream

 

A runaway, she's all alone

An addict, for years on crack

Her baby left alone to die

But still, she won't turn back

 

Thrown away, like a piece of trash

A baby, without a name

An innocent child abandoned

By a mother who bears no blame

 

Another victim of circumstance

Shamelessly, cast aside

With no one there to hear it's cries

The abandoned baby died

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