Sunflowers in Bloom

My biological father’s wife sold me.

I slept in a doghouse and fought for scraps of dog food.

Mama, who lived in the little courtyard, rescued me.

When my adoptive father first saw me, I was asleep beside Mama’s body.

He buried her for me and took me home.

But my pregnant adoptive mother called me a bastard!

Then she turned away and secretly pulled out some of my hair…