Spoiler Warning if You Haven’t Seen the Play Emma’s Child

Spoiler Warning if You Haven’t Seen the Play Emma’s Child

He enters the newly haunted room,

a baby blue bear

in his hands.

His eyes beads of hope,

his stout arms reach out

to offer hugs of apology and promise,

his soft fluff yearning for

a child to nuzzle and call his own.

She turns to him with tears,

and he knows

he’s too late.

He comforts his wife

and the bear falls

to the floor,

forgotten and alone

in a room of mourning.