The Unseen Burial

Before there was a decision to adopt, there was a burial.

This is from the book "Children of open adoption." It is for the unborn child of an infertile couple.
"Today I close the door of the nursery
I have kept for you in my heart.
I can no longer stand in its doorway.
I have waited for you there so long.
I cannot forever live on the periphery
of the dream world we share,
& you cannot enter my world.
I have fought to bring you across the
threshold of conception & birth.
I have fought time, doctors,devils &God almighty.
I am weary & there is no victory.
Other children may someday live in my heart but never in your place.
I can never hold you.
I can never really let you go. But I must go on.
The unborn are forever trapped within the living
but it is unseemly for the living to be trapped forever by the unborn."
by E. Van Clef