touching on the important things

I think about this a lot, people won't understand what/ who I'm talking about but I feel it needs to be said...

To feel completely responsible for a persons life is a daunting feeling. Not a feeling of causing their life to be any particular way but just to be responsible for their being alive at all. It's not even that they asked you to care for them its just that they have no one else that's going to do it, or perhaps no one so far has had the capacity to try so hard
To feel its your unavoidable duty to be there as much as you physically can for someone is something I find hard to cope with
and yet, I find it somewhat endearing that thus far my efforts have paid off, not to suggest that my efforts were the sole cause of said persons survival but at least they're still living at all.
This person is my reason and my strength, their ability to carry on through such immense hardship is humbling for myself and all who hear their story. Without them I have no drive and no passion, no solace in which to place my heavy heart.
Recently it has come to my attention that things outside my jurisdiction have come into effect and threaten to take my baby from me. I am scared not only for them, but for myself, because without this person I worry my spirit will finally and completely break.
At this point, all I can do is cross my fingers and wait.
And honestly, the waiting game is a hard one to play.