What I Never Had

Something I never had. Something I never had. I can miss,

but I can never lose it. It stays mine like this. You held your

little girl. You knew her smile and name. You lost a whole small universe.

Life will never be the same. I never felt a tiny hand curling into mine.

I only miss the picture, a daughter in my mind. You wake up

to an empty bed where memories used to be. I wake up to a quiet

space of what never wasn't me. Your heart knows a grave that time cannot erase.

Mine just knows a gap, an untouched place. Different kind of pain.