Small Bump || Ed Sheeran

XI

Dear Baby,

I can't believe I lost both of you. I was looking forward to the four of us having an amazing life together. But now I'm in the emergency waiting room for the second time, hoping somehow your mom and I will be okay after this.

Your mummy had an incompetent cervix. It began to widen and open, in the middle of the pregnancy. But she wasn't going into labor.

I watched as they carried your tiny body out of your mummy. There was so much blood. Your mum wouldn't stop crying. I got out of there. I couldn't be in that room any longer.

Now I'm here, sitting on this plastic chair, hearing the ring of the phone, seeing people rushing in, hearing the tick of the clock. Staring blankly at the floor, a song forming in my head.

You were just a small bump unborn for four months then torn from life.

Goodbye,
Daddy