Hiding.....?

You think our lives
Aren’t intertwined
We don’t have pasts
To leave behind.

Don’t you see
It’s our façade
Cover up our hurt
With a smile and nod.

We love our families
Lives and riches
But the holes in our hearts
Can’t be laced over with stitches.

I’m so weak
When I cry through the night
Every hour, minute, second
It’s these feelings I fight.

We’re all so much loved
By these people at our side
Why then, do we feel
The feelings we hide?

Do you see?
It’s shackles at my feet
Knowing she left me
The mother I’ll never meet.