I missed your birthday

I missed your birthday.

No one else knows I missed it.

No cake. No card. No presents.

No singing.

I could say I’m sorry. But you won’t hear my apology.

Did I think of you?

Yes.

Do I think of you?

Always.

Well, often. Therein lies yet more regret.

If I threw you a party you would not come.

Could not come.

I will miss your birthday next year.

I already know it.

You'd be 22 now.

My never-born daughter.

But.

You missed your birth day.