Although we can't always change systems, or even circumstances, together we can keep providing loving homes for kids. When you and me turns to we, we can keep going and see the light in the dawn of a new day, a new fight, a new opportunity to keep loving, always with a community to fall on.

To the ones who have fallen between the cracks:
To the ones who are unseen and unheard as society steps over you
To the ones who care for others day in and day out without recognition.
To the ones who feel vastly unsupported and infinitely overburdened
I see you and I hear you from the sidewalk above.
I will not simply step over you.

I see your day to day labors,
of putting your head down in hard work and, putting your hands up in prayer
each new sunrise as a sign that you’ve simply made it.
I hear your cries for support and solidarity that are silenced by “bigger issues” in society.
I feel your hurt in being rejected by the very society that you are holding up by completely turning around a child’s life.

I don’t have the answers to get you out of the crack
I don’t have a voice loud enough to make everyone listen
But I do have my hands and my feet
Where I can climb down and link arms with you
To not look down at you
But to look up with you.
To know what’s it’s like to feel small and stepped over
To add one more voice to the call; one more verse to the song of hope

Change isn’t trying to fill the crack with cement and burying those in it
Change is calling on others to descend into it
To hear the heartfelt experiences of others
To bring a ladder and stabilize it on the bottom as others climb out
so they are once again seen, heard, and supported.