Negative space

Incomplete, lacking, without

Scenes and frames with missing parts

Family photos, the pram, the cot

Negative spaces filling our hearts

Filling our moments, filling our dreams

Negative space where you should have been

Hopes never realised, milestones unreached

Unable to help but scan all the faces

For traces of you, your presence, your smile

Your absence glaring in those negative spaces

No dark without light, no good without bad

Our sadness so deep, missing the love that we had