Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, poet, and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a freelance writer and author get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry — plus helping the other kids from his village go to school.
below all the day
mostly unnoticed by us
you carried here, laid
carefully. placed by
hands now forgotten, unknown.
yet you mindfully
made for a purpose;
proposed, constructed, planned and
placed. you, we, the same.
© 2016 Melinda Irvine