Can you hear that?
It's the cries of our children.
Who are scared and unsure,
of what their future holds.

Being placed with total strangers, to scared to ask any questions.
Or just to young to understand, what happened to mom and dad.

All alone in the dark, as one by one the lights go out.
You say a prayer to yourself.
( dear lord if you can hear me, please take me home.
I miss my family, and I don't want them to worry. )

As you lay awake listening to strangers talking about you.
Tears in your eyes, you whisper I just want to go home.

As day breaks and the sun rises, your ordered to get up and dressed.

You know you must obey.
At the breakfast table, you are informed of how their ship is run.

You feel like you are sinking right before their eyes.
can they see your fears, do they even care?
Why won't they just let me go?
I don't belong here.

As days melt into weeks, you ask yourself if your parents ever know where you are?
Oh how worried they must be.

Your thinking maybe tomorrow, I will see them.
But tomorrow comes and goes, with no word from your parents.

In the back of your mind your asking, what did I do that was so bad?
Why can't I just go home?
Do mom and dad just not want me?
I wish someone, would tell me.

Then one day your told, you get to visit your parents.
But only for one hour, is that understood?
It's been many days now since you have seen your mom and dad.
You didn't hear the rules about the visit.
Your just so excited your going home again.
Oh how you have missed your family.

You are shuffled into a small stuffy room.
With lots of toys, and a huge mirror.
But best of all there is mom and dad.
You run into the room as the door closes behind.

Mom, Dad, where have you been?
Why didn't you come for me?
Your face wet with tears,...