She would be 19 today, with her brilliant smile and contagious laughter. We would of had lunch and I would have given her a silver locket with an engraving letting her know how much daddy loves her. She would have a girls night out doing all the fun and crazy things girls do.

I'd imagine she would find a way into a club and have a couple of drinks to celebrate with her friends knowing if anything happened that daddy is just a phone call away and he would come to the rescue if needed.

My sweet daughter would have hung out with mom too, never ever forgetting how much she means to us and how much we love her.

Mom would of pulled out all the stops for making her birthday that more special of an occasion, her mom is very good at that.

O' yeah how the universe is cruel though, instead of another year older, it's another year of weathered earth on her headstone. I stop by and clean it and bring her a bag of talkies and a sprite. We share them I talk while she listens, she has always been a good listener.

As I get up to leave I say I love you Cupcake always waiting for a response but never does one come.

My world was stolen in an instance and had left me a broken and beaten father, I close my eyes every night hoping to see her, but the universe stays cruel.
© A. Thomas