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Sep 19
Iris.
I'm so sorry I couldn't keep you.
I'm so sorry I couldn't hold you.
I'm so sorry I couldn't bury you.
I wonder every day what you would have looked like.
If you'd have his eyes or mine.
What color hair you would have had.
What your favorite foods would be.
How I would have introduced you to your aunts and uncles.
They would have loved you so much.
I can't sleep anymore.
Every time I try I wake up choking on guilt and despair.
You were so small.
You were so perfect.
I counted your tiny fingers.
I saw your flawless lips.
You could have been born close to my birthday.
I could have celebrated the return of the sun with new life in my arms.
I cannot hold you now.
I cannot feel you.
I will never get to.
He does not understand.
He cannot feel the depth of the emptiness your loss has given me.
He hasn't touched me since I lost you.
I don't know if I want him to.
Iris. 8/17/24
#pregancy
#loss
#miscarriage
#grief
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