Happy Birthday Daniel my Son.....by Diane Ogden

Are you the apple of my eye? Are you my pride and joy? Well you are. Maybe your actions are not,but you are. I have loved you since before you were born. You made me the happiest young woman alive. I sang to you while we walked and talked and to help you go to sleep... I adored you. Then came the interference.... People who were stronger then I.....people who found a way to take you from me. You didn't understand nor did I. People I thought loved me and you, did this. And therefore our lives became a combination of love meaning pain. I have found my way out but you have not. You hoped I would find it for you and I tried through guilt, but I couldn't.... My love was big enough but society doesn't count love for dollars. I need so many dollars to help you and I am searching for them. Daily I search for them. I miss you. I love you. I am so glad you were born. Am I? Borne to have such pain and live in an awful cold and / or hot tiny room where you fear for your life daily. Is that why I bore you? No..... God and the Universe I beg your expertise and trust you will help find a way to show the world the injustice done to my son through our sick justice system. You did some wrong, but not to this degree. They threw away your key so we have to trust a higher power who has the key to all things including your situation. Happy Birthday Daniel....I love you forever and forgive me for not having an answer to save you from your daily horror. I am forever watching and listening for the answer or the reporter or the attorney that will help us. "It's you and me against the world," like I used to sing to you...(only because of people thinking I was too young vs supporting us.)My tears are of joy for the answer. You do not deserve twenty nine years in a cement hole. You are kind and giving and loving. You will never do drugs again and haven't for many years already... enough time to allow you to see what they did to your life......

You are free but you are not!! Hold your anger to allow an answer. Love Love Love Mother xxoo

photo drawn by my son Daniel......