Children we never had

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Adam:
Barbara, maybe we should go. I mean, we've already lost so much.

Barbara:
Adam, we never got the chance to lose anything.
Children we didn't have don't call.
Their heights aren't marked in pencil on the wall.
They don't ride bikes, call out at night, or falling graze a knee.
And their arms will never reach, for the mother i never got to be.
Children we didn't have press in,
remind me that we couldn't just begin.
They laugh on swings, wish for things i'm not supposed to know.
And they will never stop to see, the mother that never was. That's me.
Think of the children we didn't have.
Picture them playing in our life.
Look at them deep in thought,
think of their faces when they get caught doing something naughty.
Now picture them three or four,
picture them walking out the door.
Picture them twenty, or thirty, or forty.
Or maybe fifteen, i think you know who i mean.
A daughter we didn't have, moved in.
Smart and sad, uneasy in her skin.
Far too young to lose a mom.
Or take the path she's travelling on.
If i could whisper in her ear, and tell her "Daughter, we didn't have. I'm here."

this song makes me so sad but i listen to it on repeat anyway

peace out🤙
~careflower
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