(tw: child loss) Happy Birthday Joshua 🤍🌸✨

Another Year, Still Yours
Love from your boy in the stars

Today I’d be fourteen, Mom
A taller frame, a deeper calm.
Maybe I'd be loud, or soft, or shy,
But I’d still come running when you cry.

You wonder how I'd laugh or speak,
If I'd still hold your hand each week.
Would I like books? Or sports? Or both?
You’d know because you’d know me most.

But here's the truth the stars repeat:
Every year, I feel your heartbeat.
Each birthday wish you whisper low,
I catch it in the winds that blow.

Fourteen candles, flickering gold,
You light them brave, you light them bold.
And I, a shimmer in the sky,
Smile with every tear you cry.

I’m not the years that never came,
I’m not the ache, I’m not the blame.
I’m love that never said goodbye,
I’m still your boy, I still reply.

So wear my memory like your skin,
Soft and sacred, deep within.
And when the night feels far too long,
Just hum our lullaby, our song.

'Cause I’m not gone I’ve just grown light,
A softer star, a quieter bright.
But always yours, in every way...
It’s still my birthday, Mom—today.

—Love,
Joshua 🌙✨

Happy Birthday Joshua ❤︎

@Tinywhisper11