My tribute to the children we will never know
The silence overwhelms me, for it's where your laugh should be...
and where there should be smiles, pain is all I see.
The tiny hands reach out but nothing ever touches me...
because I chose to terminate the possibilities.
I think of what you might have been, of who, and now and then...
imagination takes me to the kinder, might have beens.
And in the place I visit. you are there and laughter rings...
Then I return to life without you, with it's arrows and it's stings.
I did not think that I would ever feel such deep regret...
or feel such longing to go back and change that day and yet.
I cannot change what was, I must go forward and I do...
But it's the silence that I think of, when I think of you.
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