From the inside

As I held you in my arms
the world could have stopped
and I would have never known.
All I knew was you and I
and the new piece of me I had found
in you.

But there's a hole that appeared
as they wheeled you away.
It bleeds deep in my soul
down past everything I've ever known,
smearing darkness across the beauty
I knew.

Yet I have no regrets
for bringing you into this world.
You opened a chamber in my heart
that would have never existed
had I not held you, not known you,
my girl.

No one but you can know
the love I felt that morning.
After all,
you're the only one who knows
how my heartbeat sounds
from the inside.