The card

[billy]

"The card that I was never given.
And never did I read, did feels redundant, it's also yodaspeak, look out for it elsewhere in the poem
beloved words on cardboard paper written.
Merely an empty shelf instead

A gesture that was never sent to my address.
And never did my fingertips caress
plasticized paper that shows an amusing "get well soon" — cartoon.

The way that people can express
that on recovery they truly wish you all the loving success.

And though I never was sent,
a silly stupid present.

I wrote me a letter, to make me feel better.
Those beloved words written to myself,
to finally fill my empty shelf."

i love the sentiment behind it, the loneliness feels solid. i think you need to cut away a lot of excess words/wording. try and add a couple of images flesh it out a little more.

thanks for the read.