A new dawn. An old reality.

A new day has dawned,

and with it a fresh start.

A blank canvas allowing for countless opportunities.

But you, my child.

You lay still below the earth,

as you did yesterday,

and the day before that,

and the year before that.

Thirteen months of mornings have dawned,

three hundred and ninety seven new days.

Where was your fresh start?

Where were your countless opportunities?

A year and a month of sunrises have come and gone,

and not one of them had the power to make this right.

Not one of them could bring you back to me.

~Kristin Binder


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For those of you who don't know her, Mel is an incredible woman who does a tremendous amount of good connecting those of us in the Baby Loss, Adoption and Infertility world. Please head over here and offer her some comfort, as she mourns the passing of her grandma... an incredible and spunky woman.