(to annonymous)

dear child without a name,
you were gone before you came.
never laughed, never cried.
never learned, never tried.
no "but"'s, no "why?"'s.
we never looked into your eyes.
don't even know whos you'd a had,
would they been mom's? would they been dad's?
you never lied, you never grieved,
you never sighed, never breathed.
a shapeless mass, a chunk of cells.
boy or girl, we could not tell.
but with your death came life anew,
we chose ours in spite of you.
will not waste it, will not squander.
will be cursed to always wonder
everything that could've been,
anything that should've been.
dear child without a name,
our lives will never be the same.