Hungry we cry
Brother walks next door,
Please Ms I’m hungry
So is my little bro and sis.
I don’t know but I know
where my tummy is.
Please help us today,
Yesterday we dug through
The garbage cans…
(my favorite Dukes of Hazard
shirt now rags.. its ok, im still cool!)
Stay right here dear, I will call for help.
Hello….CPS, here
Yes, I have three small children in need
Of food and a good bath… what do I do?
We will be there soon, thank you Ms.
Who did you call Ms? Are my parents
coming home soon?
Yes, dear go home and you will have food
soon enough.
(walking home, with my head down…
wondering why she didn’t give me any
food today, couldn’t she hear my tummy…
like a lion in there)
I go inside my home, my brother and sister
still crying for my help… I told them sorry
not today.
I turn the T.V on hoping cartoons
will make them smile for a little while…
(please God help us soon…I’m only seven
so I can’t drive me and my siblings out
of this hell-hole!)
Our tummy’s, louder than the T.V…
I go check the fridge again…yup nothing
but beer… the same as 20 minutes ago.
( Damn why cant a genie be real, I would just
ask for one wish…not three. Please
give us food today)
A car pulls up …we run too the door.
Mom and Dad are home…but they don’t
Look too happy, I wonder if they feel like
cooking us food today… ? Mom looks sad
Dad looks mad! Do we dare ask, do we dare
Say my tummy hurts, I’m really hungry.
They come inside… yelling and screaming
about money and so forth..
Mommy, I’m hungry I say…
Shhhhh…. give me a minute!
A car door shuts, and the door bell rings.
Hello….Hello anyone home…??
I look outside too see if its grandpa or
grandma with some food… grandma always
Has food…. NOPE…it’s a lady and a man..
The car says CPS, I wonder what that means?
My dad answers the door….
Sir we have a report of three small children needing
Food today… will you please explain.
My, dad starts too cry, knowing we don’t get paid
till next week and the power will be out soon…
Sir I can explain… we will have food soon… my
wife and I are going out to the market right now….
Sir may I please come-in…I would like to see your
Fridge…
I start to cry…I never seen my dad scared before…
My little brother runs up to the lady…with a wet
diaper on…it almost touches the floor… im hungry
do you have any food…he says…
No sweetheart I don’t but we will take you too some
food soon I promise…
Sir, the man says all there is in this fridge is rotten
Old beer, not even a good beer for you sir…
What do you think I should do?
Please, give me time…I get paid next week… can
You loan me some money till then? Im asking as a
Friend a member of this community.. I need financial
help today…
No Sir Im so sorry your children are coming with us today.
They pick us up as we kick and scream with all our might
My mother , my father screaming please…those are our
Children…don’t take them away….
They put us in the car… my mother crying hitting the window
Pleading too please open the car door… let me at least kiss
Them good-bye…
6 months, 3 years, 7 years old we were wrongfully taken
From our mom and dad… put into foster homes… we
Couldn’t even stay with our older brother because he was
Not our full brother… we had the same mom but not the
Same dad…so he was adopted and my little brother and
I went to a foster home to live…..
My older brother Aaron, the one who tried to get us food
That day…had night terrors for years the way they took us
From our mother and father…never to see us again, the
System wouldn’t allow it
My brother and I soon forgot…we had an older brother
because we were so young….
4 years later our father gets us back… Me and my little
Brother…but our older brother he can not… my mother
No longer wanting us…she turned to sex and drugs…
My father no angle as he tried so hard to be… he
Almost lost us when he fell back into drugs as-well
but he gave it up when he realized next time we will
Go for good!
9 years later…I’m 16 my little brother 14. my grandma
Told me I had an older brother…but we don’t know where
He lives… so we make a few phone calls… after a lot
Of “I don’t know” I finally have the 7 magic numbers
To my older brothers home… I’m scared too call but I do.
A lady answers… and I ask if my brother Aaron is there
She sounds a tad scared and say’s no my dear… he is in school
Who is this…I give her my name… and she starts to cry…
OMG! She says this can’t be true… why now after all this time?
I don’t know, I just learned I had a brother today.
This is dedicated too all the families that were wrongfully
Torn apart… this could have been handled so much better
and so much less traumatic for me, my two brothers and family.
Also to my loving brother who only tired to help us get food
That day… makes you think, if that lady would have welcomed
Us into her home… and gave us food that day… if the officer
Would have looked the other way and said yes, sir I have money
To help you today….
28 years later and the pain is still there…..
Thank you so much for your time ….to read my true story..
STREETJEANS PH...
I hope someday your pain will lessen. That you can find peace in your soul for all of the loss that you have taken in your life with your family. No one should ever leave a child hungry, so sad… I have said a prayer for you and if you haven’t already give your sadness to God he is always there he will “Never” turn you away from “his Door Hungry.” Best Wishes to you…
jalcruz:
Thank you so much, i learning every day to give my pain to God, he is my rock…ive been broken hearted and left so many times , even now as an adult , looking for true love, when the only true love there is, is with God, the one who is jealous for us, the one who loves like a hurricane, i now have three boys of my own and a single mom trying to hold onto love in him so i can return in to my boys, Thank you for the prayer! God bless you for that!!!
Mark Ramstead
Posted two years ago??? Where have you been? Since then?
jalcruz:
i never wrote about it until then… ive been around working hard, taking care of my boys;)