"CAN'T MISS WHAT I NEVER HAD" | The Grief Toolbox

I never got to hear your laugh

I never looked into your eyes

You never went to time out

Because you never told a lie

I don't know how tall you could have been

If you'd been skinny or a little fat

I never heard your first words

On my lap you never sat

But I already loved you

I felt you grow in me

I picked the clothes that you'd wear home

But that day never came to be

I don't know the color of your eyes

Were they brown or blue?

I know you looked like your daddy

I saw his face in you

Some would say that after 8 years

I shouldn't still be sad

That I should just move forward

"Can't miss what I never had"

But Michael James Harmon

I never will forget

The day I held you in my arms

I held you close yet wept

Because I had to say hello

And goodbye that same day

A breath you never got to take

Yet you took mine away

I laid to rest my baby

And a piece of my heart

You took it with you

So we're never far apart

BY GWENDY VANUCCI

Written for my Daughter Kristy and my grandson Baby Mikey

About the Author

I am a mother of 3... Minus one... Oh I hate the math part. My 20 year old Tommy, passed away in his sleep in his room on 3-30-09. Since then I have been struggling with grief...and I needed to deal with it. I grieved out loud...with words. I write poems on grief. If you liked the poem you just read, and would like to read more of my work, I have 3 books available at LULU.COM just look up my name GWENDY VANUCCI. I'm not out to make money off my sons death... I am out to help parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends...deal with the grief they feel. Grief is a normal healing process that we all go though. My journey with grief and my poems are a very raw look at all the stages we go through to hopefully feel whole again. I guess I have to keep writing, cause it's going on six years since my son passed, and it's hard to feel whole with a hole in my chest.

I'm Grieving, Now What?

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