young ears, young eyes, young mind,
your ignorant "parents" have made you forever blind.
seeing things a seven year old should not see,
but who am i to judge how ones life should be?
i watched him cover his ears when anyones voices were raised,
does that tell you something about his home life?
how his parents rarely gave him good days.
but now my nick is gone to somwhere that i can’t find
i wish for him better days, the bad ones left behind.
there has to be someone or something amazing looking out for these kids.

Today my cousin Nick who is 7 years old and his sister Katherine who is 10 months old, were taken away by DCF due to his ignorant parents and their inability to take care of their children. The story that I was told was that Nick and Katie’s father and mother, Craig and Heather, were in a huge argument like most days. Craig like usual was on some drug and he became somewhat violent. All day he begged my grandfather for money and took it out on his "girlfriend", Heather, when he couldn’t get any. He clamied he needed it for food and diapers, but we all know it was for drugs. Thankfully he was not granted any money. Anyways, Heather’s mother called DCF on them because she didn’t want the kids to suffer any longer through one of their fights. A social worker came, took the kids and now nobody in my family knows where they are. It is not 100% decided yet, but Nick and Katie might come stay with my parents and I for a while until things are straightened out. I wish not for the kids to go to a foster home, which is where they are now, but we just don’t know which one. I wish for them to live with someone else in my family like my aunt and uncles who may take them. If not I don’t know what could happen. I’m so scared right now and I am just hoping that nothing bad happens and the kids are ok. Nick and Katie mean so much to mean and I swear to everything and everyone if I ever come face to face with Craig or Heather it is guaranteed they will get a piece of my mind. Can you believe Craig said his first priority was his motorcycles, not even his kids...welcome to my fucked up family...I don’t wish to know what the future holds at all right now.