It's Been A While.....

While I've been off, God knows where, the world keeps turning. Things happen, the world changes, people change. Like the rest of America, I've followed the Casey Anthony case. Not because I was a morbidly curious piranha, but because the woman showed absolutely no remorse about not reporting her only child missing for over a month. In fact, she made excuses as to why she never reported little Caylee "missing". I know the jury returned a not guilty verdict because they say that they state didn't prove their case beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt. But really, not reporting your child missing for over 31 days, making compound lies to explain where she was, inventing a fictitious nanny, who's name and address you probably lifted from a phone book, and nearly driving your father to suicide once he found out that the child was dead, that all strikes me as high suspicious. I am a mother. I have a four year old and a three year old. The thought of a mother having something to do with the death of her own child makes my blood run cold. Yes, there's been things that I wanted to do that I couldn't, places I wanted to go. But it's called being a responsible adult and prioritizing. I wrote the following poem just a couple of days after the Anthony verdict. If anyone wants to pass it along, please feel free to. The only thing I ask is that if you repost or reblog this some where, give credit.

It saddens me that you're gone.

I didn't know you at all.

But it still breaks my heart.

All the things you'll never get to do.

The places you'll never see.

Your life was cut short tragically.

By the one person who should have protected you.

We the people failed you, and for that I apologize.

It's comforting to know that you're safe.

But your safety shouldn't have come with such a high price.

Rest In peace little angel.

You will never be forgotten.

Your memory will live on.

We the people failed to give you justice.

No one that young should have their life cut short.

In the Memory of Caylee Marie Anthony 2005-2008