Bethany Eades

I wish you were here.
That you realised
Just how much I miss you.
Who you should be.

I saw you the other day,
Who you are now.
Distant. Cold.
I don’t know you.

“Daddy’s little girl”,
A wish unfulfilled.
I am empty.
You’re gone.

I remember back
When you lived with us.
So distant.
So removed.

A hollow shell,
Mum covered for you
Twelve long years now.
Alone.