Here we have Sarah's feelings about being placed in an orphanage.

One core need that all people share is the need to belong. Each of us needs to feel like we are a part of something important. Something that has meaning. Something that's bigger than the individual person.

This poem is about Sarah's need to belong to something greater than herself.

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Questions

Questions deserve answers, as much as asked

But who is willing to answer the questions I have

The ones that trouble me day and night

The ones that seem to be my only concern

For why did my parents have to die

Why does the community decide orphans lives

Why is an orphanage that horrible

Why no one ever deemed me worthy for adoption

Why blacks especially black women face all the wrong odds

What I was doing with my life

If I would remain a mechanic to survive

What else could life possibly offer

Was life done harassing me

Why Uncle Albert reenacted a hermit

Crawling out from the dark and returning back almost immediately

Why he chose to be his only friend and enemy all at once

Questions upon questions

Like why I had so many unanswered questions

Or why more questions kept piling

Would I ever get answers

Or would I die like my parents not knowing why or what

Author's Note

Questions are what make us tick!

Two people can experience the same struggle and take away completely different perspectives.

For example, one person might focus entirely on negative questions. This person might ask, "Why did this have to happen to me?"

Another person might ask, "How can I grow from this struggle? How can I help others experiencing this problem?"

The brain works in interesting ways. Ask a question, and the brain will find an answer - positive or negative - based on the way the question is asked.

Different questions. Different answers, options, and paths to very different futures.

In times of struggle, what questions are you asking yourself?