Smiles Of Grief Poem by Daniel Sims

As a kid you think the world is yours,
From the moment you crawl on all fours,
To the moment your parents stand tall,
Crying happily at your transition to man.

Somewhere within the decades to follow,
Something is missing from inside of you,
You can't understand it or even perceive it,
Until he kneels before your she, smiling.

As they cry with smiles of glad and joy,
Just as your parents did for you,
And as they will for their children,
A sound from within shatters your belief.

That decade-long feeling you tried to conceal,
Comes bubbling to the surface and a tear
Trickles down the face of yours but unlike theirs,
You cry from grief. It should've been me, not he.