The Empty Chair

A friend asked me to write something for a webpage for National and International missing children awareness day is on the 25th. I sat down and jotted this out really quick. Thought I'd share :)

I see the empty chair there

At the table where you’d sit,

I close your bedroom door tight

But still leave a lamp dimly lit.

I hold the bear you used to

When you were lonely or felt sad.

I still play your favorite songs;

The ones you'd danced with dad.

I still water your rose bush

The one you planted mother’s day,

I save a spot in church next to me

Hoping and waiting while I pray.

I still make dinner for four;

Even though I know there's only three.

I hold on tight to all your artwork

And just know you’ll come back to me.

I fix the crooked picture frames

still hanging on the wall.

I look at them every day and say,

“I miss you, I love you, come home, that's all.”

I’ve tried to patch the piece of my heart

That lies empty all the time

but I can’t do that without you here;

you’re the piece absent in my life.

I’d give my life, my soul, my being

to know just where you are.

The pain that I can’t bear to take

I kissed up to the stars.

But I will never give up hope;

or stop searching for my blessing.

Please remember me; the lost

Don’t ever give up on the missing.

Reviews

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Incredibly sad. I can't imagine what it must be like having a missing child. There are no words to express the torture a parent must go through.