Got to thinking today<\/p>\n
If you had lived<\/p>\n
If I had carried you to term<\/p>\n
If we had finished what we started<\/p>\n
You would be about\u00a014 now<\/p>\n
We’d be worried about sex<\/p>\n
Fighting over curfews<\/p>\n
And doing your chores<\/p>\n
I would be practiced at\u00a0being a mom<\/p>\n
You’d be lost between being<\/p>\n
A small child<\/p>\n
And a blossoming adult<\/p>\n
I would watch you with pride<\/p>\n
Be disappointed if you failed<\/p>\n
You’d be thinking about driving<\/p>\n
Wondering about high school<\/p>\n
Imagining your wedding day<\/p>\n
And how many kids you would have<\/p>\n
Your dreams would be Oscars and Emmys<\/p>\n
Grammys and being president<\/p>\n
You would be dreaming of long travels<\/p>\n
To foreign lands<\/p>\n
You’d be learning to be brave and generous<\/p>\n
Selfish and timid<\/p>\n
Reckless and responsible<\/p>\n
You’d be looking in the mirror<\/p>\n
Conscious of your clothes<\/p>\n
Worried over a pimple<\/p>\n
Brushing your hair over and\u00a0over again<\/p>\n
If you had lived<\/p>\n
If I had carried you to term<\/p>\n
If we had finished what we started<\/p>\n
You’d be 14 now<\/p>\n
You would hold my imagination<\/p>\n
Rather than being a figment of it<\/p>\n
You would be beautiful and smart<\/p>\n
Awkward and helpless<\/p>\n
Strong and dependant<\/p>\n
And I would smile and worry<\/p>\n
You are the child I never knew<\/p>\n
But who lives in my heart<\/p>\n
Every single day<\/p>\n
For fourteen years<\/p>\n
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