Little One: A Tribute

A year ago today we suffered a miscarriage, this is a third poem about Little One, a tribute and closure.

Little One it doesn’t seem so long ago
That you let us know you we’re going to show
A month later and you were lost
If I could’ve saved you, I would no matter the cost

A year has passed, you’d be 3 months I wager
I thought of you often, filled with grief and anger
Spilling fury and tears onto paper
The five stages of grief were to my emotions like a scraper

I’ve broken down and risen again
A slight echo of pain I’ll always carry within
It’s time to move on, I hope you understand
Living in the past, I no longer can’t

We will hold up your memory
Tell the good story
Our love will never die
You were our first, in my eye

Little One Part II

For those that are new or having kept up that much, my wife and I suffered a loss a few months back. Poetry is my feelings in words, and sometimes helpful.

Little One it’s been awhile

I still wish I could see you smile

The pain ebbs and flows

I almost wish my heart would grow cold

It’s been months since that day

Feels like yesterday

I often look at the Angel Memorial on the shelf

Oh God, the pain within myself

Your mom hasn’t been the same

Her pain, in waves it came

It hurts knowing a mother’s burden is greater

That I can’t help her shoulder it

She sees babies being born

We’ll have another she’s sworn

Toddlers playing

She’s praying

Every child we see

We wonder what could be

I was cleaning out my phone the other day

Looking for pictures that needed to go away

I came across those we took when we learned of you

And I had to quickly turn away too

Tears came unbidden

Wish I could make them forbidden

I could keep going

Until its snowing

But a part three

In the future I see

So I say farewell

Till in my mind you come back to dwell

Praying our emotions will quell

And happiness swells

Little One

Little One we never knew.
A welcome addition to a family of two.
When we heard you were on the way.
We jumped for joy that day.

For being no bigger than a mustard seed.
You had our hearts and all the love you would need.
Went to the doctors and learned all we could.
Read the books the experts said we should.

Went to follow up
Little nervous and not wanting to throw up
In the exam room, all was right
Until the doctor said the baby was gone and gave us a fright

We cry and mourn
The Little One who’ll never be born
My firm belief is when you went away
Up in Heaven is where you went to stay

One day your parents will arrive
Brothers and sisters to be at your side.
Little One we never knew.
A welcome addition to a family of two.